MINNEAPOLIS — It's a record that's stood for nearly 150 years – the Twin Cities' warmest winter. In 1877 to 1878, the Twin Cities averaged 29 degrees between the months of December and February. It's ...

Thomas Alva Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park whose genius ushered in a new era of light and sound for humankind, invented the phonograph at his New Jersey laboratory on this day in history, Aug. 12, ...

Below the west slope of the Guadalupe Mountains, 110 miles east of El Paso, is a series of salt lakes now called Salt Flats. The salt lakes were on public land, and in 1877, the lakes supplied ...

Asaph Hall transitioned from Harvard Observatory to the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., in 1862, eventually overseeing the 26-inch Clark refractor. During the 1877 close opposition of Mars ...

The firehouse closed in October 2023 for the $2.5 million project. Firefighters are back in the building after its compeltion ...