Vancouver's official bird might not be the one you'd expect, and it also appreciates a little help during the winter months. Anna's hummingbirds are a non-invasive, resident species. But they lack ...

Hummingbirds are fighters. While their needle-like bills help the tiny birds slurp up nectar inside flowers, the appendages serve a dual purpose: to joust with others over food and mates. Now, a new ...

He settled in on a Tuesday morning and his mum crawled into bed with him and that is where she stayed until the moment he took his last breath — that same evening. Tom was one of the many terminally ...

Identifying the reasons why the stock market rises or falls is challenging, if not impossible, but the slide in interest rates has surely bees a non-trivial factor in lifting equities this year. A key ...

My ’60s radio DJ led with the sad news — Turtles co-founder Mark Volman had died at 78 — then softened the blow by playing the band’s folk-rock gem, “It Ain’t Me Babe.” Maybe you’re thinking: wait, ...

More than 50 Queensland parents, including those who are currently caring for babies and children with life-limiting palliative conditions, are speaking out about their “deep concerns” regarding ...

Democrats’ fear-mongering about the Trump economy is looking more and more like sour grapes. Yesterday’s CPI report, showing inflation of 2.7 percent — well below the expected 3.1 percent — was bad ...

Peter Navarro begins his op-ed “Tariffs Are a Discipline, Not a Press Release” (Dec. 22) by knocking down a straw man. No serious economist predicted that the levies would “immediately crash the ...

You’ve heard of birds flying south to escape the winter, but do you know how chipmunks spend the colder months? Eastern chipmunks dig their burrows near decaying logs or stone piles, carving out a ...

Staffing issues have forced the sudden and extended closure of Queensland’s only hospice facility for children, with fears the service won’t reopen as planned in the new year. Hummingbird House in ...

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