Japanese-style kites will soar above Central Park Stapleton in Denver Tuesday and Wednesday during the city’s first ever Japanese Kite Festival. A venerated tradition passed down through generations, ...

In Weifang, Shandong province, kites are not just toys. They symbolize both culture and an industry for the city. Widely known as the world capital of kites, Weifang has a history of flying kites ...

When a couple decided to make Lufkin their retirement home, they struggled with what activity to take up as a golden years hobby. Bass fishing? Not interested. Hunting? Not it. It was a chance ...

Kites, mostly of the traditional kind, are catching the eye of passers-by at Peterson’s One-Stop Kite Shop in Martindale’s Road, St Michael. Owner of the business, 58-year-old Peter Wiltshire, who has ...

Huddled over piles of colourful paper, Mohammad Yunus is one among thousands of workers in India's western state of Gujarat who make kites by hand that are used during a major harvest festival. People ...

The festival kicks off Saturday, Sept. 6, with the Capriccio Festival of Kites at Ogunquit's Main Beach from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

On a recent afternoon with springtime in the rising breeze, something else wonderful was in the air: a kite. Shortly, a second kite took flight as well. Like bookends separated by a row of volumes, ...

Han Fuling, 82, holds two of his kites at his apartment in Weifang, China on June 26, 2014. Weifang is known as China's kite capital, and Han is one of the city's most revered kite artists. But during ...

A new product design, nicknamed the BEK, could make kite-fishing much easier, if only we can find the inventor. The post A ...

In a move more akin to Tom Cruise in a Mission Impossible flick, two men just smashed an obscure Guinness World Record – the ...