For the German town of Torgau, the 1945 meeting of American and Russian troops at the Elbe River at the end of World War II is a source of local pride. Every five years, they host a banquet for ...

On a flat, windswept green plain north of Hamburg in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, a Herrenknecht tunnel boring machine is now 200 meters deep into burrowing under the Elbe River estuary.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — 127 years of Lilacs! The famous Rochester Lilac Festival is back this year! Thousands of people are ...

The Mississippi River's endangered status stems from uncertainty surrounding FEMA's future role in floodplain protection and infrastructure maintenance. FEMA plays a crucial role in disaster ...

It’s a national historic site honoring the work of famed lilac developer Hulda Klager. We headed north to the Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens at 115 S. Pekin Road in Woodland, Washington to learn ...

Hulda Klager was known as "The Lilac Lady" of Woodland, Washington, and for 50 years the community has celebrated this incredible woman with "Lilac Days." You can visit the beautiful gardens and ...

The Flower City’s signature lilacs, a month away from the start of the Rochester Lilac Festival, should endure, said Mark Quinn, Monroe County superintendent of horticulture. Early-season plants ...

Houston Cougars forward J'Wan Roberts shares his basketball skills with parents Elbe Brathwaite and Jeff Roberts Emily Blackwood is a writer and editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

A heavy-duty module loaded with weights drives over the closed Elbe bridge as part of a three-day load test intended to show that the Elbe crossing can be reopened to traffic, in Bad Schandau ...

Flight Commander Douglas A. Oliver, facing dangerously low visibility, descended and unexpectedly spotted German warships along the Elbe River. With no room for retreat, he pressed forward ...

Basketball is in J'Wan Roberts’ blood — just ask his parents, Elbe Brathwaite and Jeff Roberts. “He was actually born to play basketball if you ask me,” his father told WTJX in April 2025.

All three people on board a small plane were killed when it crashed into a river in Nebraska the evening of April 18, authorities said. The plane was traveling along the Platte River south of the ...