The 13 colonies were all part of the British Empire, but they had many differences, from the colonists' views on religious ...

Largest nuclear power plant in New England mails emergency preparedness plans to 60,000 in Amesbury, Merrimac, Newbury, ...

Parts of Southern New England could catch the brunt of this quick-hitting storm, leaving many residents shoveling come Monday ...

Biologists from the New England Aquarium say 20 percent of all the right whales in the world are together, right now, off the ...

BOSTON - About 75 North Atlantic right whales, representing about 20% of the critically endangered species' population ...

A map, drawn by Native American Arikara tribal leader and guide Too Né for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, was recently discovered in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, according to a Lewis & ...

Colonizers have always coveted the Gulf of Mexico: its trade winds, ports, fish and shellfish, its deep pockets of oil and gas far beneath a basin floor of crashed, tectonic plates.

It was the savage summer of 1839 and in the thick undergrowth of the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales, John Gould ...