What if New England trees could produce a culinary oil on par with olive oil? What if they already do – except practically no one knows it? Local producers and foresters are working to put homegrown ...

The latest news and updates from across the Triangle, in your inbox every morning. There’s a black oak in Wake County with a 17.5-foot circumference, a 123-foot-tall shellbark hickory in Durham, a ...

More than two dozen species of oak are native to North Carolina. But with a quick glance and some context clues, Luke Ferreira and Spencer Cain can identify pretty much all of them. Not to mention ...

Back in 1964, a scientific decision ended up destroying one of the oldest living organisms ever discovered. Prometheus, a Great Basin bristlecone pine growing high on the slopes of Wheeler Peak in ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Orange County Sheriff's Office announced Friday evening that the body of 13-year-old Madeline Soto, who has been missing since Monday, was found in a wooded area of Osceola County.

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — On Thursday, the Kissimmee Police Department released 80 pages of investigative documents which, among numerous other things, reports how medical experts believe 13-year-old Madeline ...