“It matters what you call a thing,” the characters of “Cullud Wattah” keep saying, so let’s be clear that the thing Erika Dickerson-Despenza chronicles in her audacious lament of a play is an utter ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Katrina Babies' Edward Buckles: "By the weekend, New Orleans natives felt a sense of relief when we learned the hurricane ...

Twenty years ago next week, Hurricane Katrina swept through the Gulf Coast with unholy fury. In the Lower Ninth Ward, a majority Black and largely low-income area, levees burst and the Mississippi ...

Once rich with fish and culture, Pyramid Lake has been drained by decades of water diversions. The Paiute Tribe is still fighting to restore balance to their ancestral waters. College football leaders ...

FLINT, MI - You couldn’t go anywhere without hearing TLC, Coolio, Boyz II Men, All-4-One and Hootie on the radio. The year was 1995. There were no cell phones in classrooms. Instead of laptops, ...

Donetsk is gripped by severe water shortages Russian-backed head has told Putin about the problem Start of Soviet-era canal is on land controlled by Ukraine Residents queue up at water trucks amid ...

Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce engagement forces professor to cancel class (sort of) A social media strategy class at UT Knoxville made a viral video pretending to cancel class over the Travis Kelce, ...

A long lasting drought and severe heat this summer, compounded with government mismanagement of the country’s dams have led to an impending water crisis in Iran. Officials are warning that the ...

Just over a year ago, water levels at the two international reservoirs that supply millions of people across deep South Texas and northern Mexico with fresh water fell to their lowest levels in ...

NORTH HALEDON — Elected officials have pledged to scrape together whatever money they can to compensate people affected by a recent pipe failure in Paterson that left tens of thousands without running ...

In 2017, after the Tubbs Fire blazed through parts of California’s wine country, a Santa Rosa resident returned home to one of the few structures left standing in his fire-scarred neighborhood. He ...