ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — More than a thousand people in Alaska dressed up as elves or in other elaborate costumes, while some stripped down to barely anything to take part in a polar plunge. The ...

The excitement was building as a crowd of hundreds hugged their arms together, half naked, on the gravelly shore of Sanders Beach in Coeur d’Alene on New Year’s Day morning. A slow drum beat ...

The interior occupancy signage beneath the bathroom knobs in the Coast Guard station’s hangar-type annex say “Secure” and “Unsecure.” I’m in here, disrobing and then promptly re-robing in ...

BYRON — In her second day as a naturalist at Oxbow Park, Alicia Ice got a vivid, almost stunning, reminder of the power of nature and ice. On Tuesday, as temperatures shot up into the 50s and snow ...

Religious figures were given a baptism of ice as they joined the summer’s fundraising craze. Staff at Chichester Cathedral took delight in pouring iced water over the heads of the Cathedral’s acting ...