Berkeley County is rewriting its zoning ordinance for the first time in more than two decades as officials work to address ...

Huntley, 52, left lying in a pool of blood on a wing at HMP Frankland, County Durham, and is now in medically-induced coma ...

New research reveals older singing male whales are increasingly successful at siring offspring compared to younger males.

The American birthrate has fallen to its lowest rate in history. This has caused consternation in the political class: A falling rate can eventually lead to too few workers to sup ...

With roofs over their heads, albeit precariously, they’re absent from the tallies that shape how homelessness is understood by the public.

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination is associated with a significantly reduced risk of invasive cervical cancer, with no ...

After three days of debate marked by filibuster, failed amendments and repeated concerns about prison overcrowding, Nebraska lawmakers advanced a bill that restructures felony penalties for fentanyl o ...

After the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, escaped domestic pigs bred with wild boar, creating a hybrid population.

That, says Hamilton Lombard, a demographer at the University of Virginia, is a remarkable turnaround—especially since it is occurring at a time when America’s overall population is growing as slowly ...

In Wisconsin and nationwide, population growth slowed in 2025 amid a significant decline in international migration.

Washington state crossed a population milestone in the latest Census Bureau estimates: As of July 1, 2025, the state had 8 million residents for the first time. The population estimate, to be precise, ...