Comic-Con returns to San Diego, where, back in August 1970, it began life as the Golden State Comic Book Convention in the ...

Dispatch's own Weatherbird, the oldest daily cartoon in American newspapers, is still going strong after nearly 125 years.

If a trait survives because it’s evolutionarily beneficial, then – pretty much by definition – it should be inheritable. That ...

For years, people assumed sharks were the silent type, but that’s not true, and they aren’t alone when it comes to creatures ...

Meet Torrence Allen, the principal at Belton High School in our latest episode of Voices of Kansas City, a collaboration with ...

Old oil wells on the reservation spew chemical-laden water. The feds have done little to honor treaty obligations to clean ...

Other people might note his alienness and quickly forget it, but I couldn’t unsee it. And because I couldn’t unsee his, I ...

The January wildfires burned jacaranda trees from Pasadena and Altadena to the Pacific Palisades. Some are burned at the base ...

"I had held on longer than most and, up to age 12, could still find one or two friends who would secretly, shamefully, play ...

This summer’s big blockbuster, Superman, marks the latest installment of the Man of Steel — a character whose identity has ...

Two years ago, Nicolle Orozco Forero walked into an in-home day care in Seattle, Washington, looking for a job. She was ...

President Trump is set to kick off a one-year countdown to America's 250th birthday with a speech July 3 at the Iowa State ...