In 2025, children from across UK submitted their stories into 500 Words. Read some of the finalists from this year’s competition.

Native to Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania, sugar gliders are nocturnal mammals renowned for their remarkable ability to glide distances of up to 45 metres. Their arrival has provided Animal ...

There are more than 27,000 green spaces and parks across the UK — but one certainly stands out among the rest. Lilidorei, based at The Alnwick Garden in Northumberland, isn’t just a fantastical land ...

The latest episode in our Carlisle United nostalgia series looks back at 1986 and what remains the Blues' last game as a second-tier club.

I’ve been thinking a lot about my relationship to true crime lately. Though I’ve mostly stayed away from the podcasts I used to binge and the fast-turnaround documentaries that seem to appear on ...

The organization encourages beach-goers to seek out the floats and take them home. The next float drop will start Feb. 6. Finders Keepers, an organization known for scattering colorful glass orbs ...

The hero we need now.

Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia, announced in November 2025 that he will relaunch the group after it disbanded following his prison sentence in 2023. Rhodes was ...

Dec. 25 (UPI) --Best-selling author Craig Johnson released a new Sheriff Walt Longmire Christmas story -- "Scents of the Season" -- on Thursday. In keeping with his yuletide tradition, Johnson posted ...

The Yarmouth cafe whose peanut butter Fluff latte went viral over the summer built a Christmas tree this season to commemorate the popular drink. People were seen taking photos with it during the ...

“A Christmas Story” was the little movie that could, parlaying modest box office success into a bona fide cultural phenomenon since its 1983 release. For many fans, one of the beloved holiday staple’s ...

It's Christmas week, which means it's time to gather around the television and watch one of the most famous holiday movies: "A Christmas Story." The beloved 1983 movie, which was filmed in Cleveland ...