St. Paul’s Como Park Zoo announced some unhappy news Thursday morning that triggered a social media outpouring of nostalgia-tinged sadness. It wasn’t the death of a beloved animal or the closing of a ...

Thousands of microbead pellets from a ripped pool toy scatter across the surface of Lake Tahoe in early July 2021. (Alison Toy/UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center) A new trend of pool toys ...

A plastic egg a 5-year-old boy in Limavady, Northern Ireland, thought was a toy turned out to contain an illegal drug. The Belfast Telegraph reported that the boy was playing with his 8-year-old ...

Toy trucks molded from a wood-plastic composite are designed to sustain interest among both children and their parents. Luke's Toy Factory in Danbury, Conn., is selling trucks with 30 percent less ...

An Andover mom was able to unbuckle and pull her children off a plastic toy car minutes before the battery-powered vehicle burst into flames and melted in a heap ...

Bill Nichols is making cheap, squishy, collectible animal toys that come in plastic bubbles — just like what you’d find in a vending machine. He seems to be on to something because his toys, Squinkies ...