Early explorers weren't just worried about storms, starvation, mutiny, scurvy, wild animals, and all the other terrible fates that could and did befall them. They were also on guard against the ...

We are all familiar with the distinctive buzzing noise of a Duke Card when it unlocks a door. The gratifying “beep beep” sound signifies to us that we’ve been granted access to wherever we ...

The 25th annual Philanthropy 50, the Chronicle’s list of America’s biggest donors, is based on gifts and pledges of cash and stock to nonprofit organizations in 2024. The Chronicle talked to dozens of ...

Last semester, I started to develop a peculiar ache in my right shoulder. Initially, I attributed this lopsided pain to a multitude of things that come with the freshman experience: Maybe I wasn ...

Early explorers were on guard against the strange and horrifying humanoids that they thought lived just beyond the known world.

H igher education is at an inflection point. Across the country, colleges, and especially small liberal-arts colleges, are being tested. Some question whether we are still fulfilling our central ...

A woman in her 70s has tragically died in a house fire in Brunswick Village. Emergency services, including police, firefighters and ambulance crews, descended on an area of the Newcastle village ...

After mass rainfall totals in the Lockyer Valley across Sunday and Monday, the Bureay of Meteorology has lowed its flood warning levels for both the Lockyer and Laidley Creeks. Moderate flooding ...

Emergency services are pleading with Toowoomba residents to take the potential impacts of Tropical Cyclone Alfred seriously, as they prepare to deal with massive winds and rainfall. Disaster ...