His first feature-length movie, in 1971, was called his country’s “Stonewall moment,” for jump-starting a gay-rights movement ...

Fort Lauderdale weighs drone light shows for July 4 and New Year's events, balancing tradition, cost, quieter displays for pets and environmental benefits.

In Montgomery, a city where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. found his origins as an icon of civil rights, the federal holiday ...

NYC Parks Commissioner Iris Rodriguez-Rosa joined elected officials in Manhattan on Monday, Jan. 5, to announce the Annual ...

For 2026, there will be eight federal holidays when Americans (and only Americans and legal residents) will have free entry ...

A pedestrian dressed in dark clothing was fatally struck by a vehicle on I-65 North near Rosa Parks Boulevard.

Stockton is known for its grit in the face of tragedy. A recent shooting that left four people dead, including three children ...

The new record on the Petaluma River was likely to be broken again by late morning Saturday as the king tides were expected ...

A large number of lobster carcasses have washed ashore in recent days at San Onofre State Beach. While state officials are ...

Betty Reid Soskin, who rose to national prominence as the National Park Service’s oldest ranger and shared her experiences of ...

October 2025 marked the 20th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ death. She was 92 when she died in her Detroit home in 2005. WDET’s ...

Seven decades after Rosa Parks was thrust indelibly into American history for refusing to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, ...