GILFORD, N.H. (AP) — A costumed skier races down a slope, hits a pond and hydroplanes halfway across. He pirouettes and then plunges into the icy water before jumping up and waving to the cheering ...

The snow has to stop falling, and the snow has to melt. Skiing, that thing we love so much, is time-sensitive. Each year, the expiration date arrives, and as everyone else is celebrating the end of ...

Jim Metivier stands on extensions of his dock over Long Pond in Denmark, Maine, in Nov. 2022. Water levels on his property have gradually receded over a period of several years. "I haven't been able ...

A privately-owned, man-made pond at Willow Springs Ranch that some residents of the subdivision community recently worried could dry up will soon receive 4 acre-feet of water, a short-term solution ...

Apr. 25—Each spring, usually during April, my walking takes me on a route where I visit about 10 vernal ponds. Often called "vernal pools," they tend to be small and shallow and show up in spring.