This story is part of Traveller’s series My Happy Place. See all stories. Snowfall swallows you in silence. The world is transformed, its imperfections painted away. I have many special places.

Originally published in August 2003 under the headline "It was hell on earth," as part of the Star's special section "Smoke, Flames & Ash": The story of the Aspen Fire is a monthlong saga, but its ...

Bernard L. Madoff is in therapy. Each week, he waits for the signal that prisoners are allowed to leave their housing units, then he walks the five minutes from his “room,” as he calls it, to the ...

The effects of extreme heat in other parts of the world have come closer to home in recent days, as Mullingar people at a ...

A jet ski crash involving multiple people occurred in the Assawoman Bay in north Ocean City. One patient was airlifted to a trauma center, while two others were treated at the scene. Firefighters used ...

An 18-year-old from House Springs was ejected from a jet ski and struck his head while jumping a wake, troopers said.

An 18-year-old man from House Springs, Missouri, was seriously injured in a jet ski accident on Friday afternoon at the Lake ...

A Carteret fireboat suffered catastrophic damage Saturday when a surfacing whale struck the craft in the Raritan Bay as it ...

A whale breached beneath the stern of the boat and struck the vessel on July 4, causing what the fire department described as ...

A New Jersey fire rescue boat was sunk in a “harrowing” freak accident involving a whale, sending the whole crew overboard ...

The 47,000-acre Sawmill Fire is shown erupting from an exploding target — with blue smoke bursting off the fire’s fringes — in a video just obtained by the Arizona Daily Star. The 49-second video ...