After a wet January and February, Carrizo Plain National Monument has entered bloom — the rare kind that earns the prefix “super.” The mountain ranges have been flowering for weeks. The valley floor ...

A fierce storm drenched the Carrizo Plain earlier this week — and wildflowers are blooming in its wake. The storm dropped about 5 inches of rain on San Luis Obispo County during the past five days, ...

A previously undocumented Underground Railroad site has been discovered inside the 1832 Merchant’s House Museum in Manhattan, revealing what researchers say is the earliest known location of ...

NEW YORK -- A hidden chapter of history that was quietly waiting in plain sight has just been uncovered in New York City, concealed behind a second-floor dresser at the Merchant's House Museum.

Jan. 1, 1983 marked the official end of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad name, as the company had officially been consolidated into the corporation Americans now know as CSX Transportation. The ...

Enslaved Africans with dreams of being free found safety in the heart of NYC. To the naked eye, the 4-story brick row house on East 4th Street is just another of the 19th-century buildings on a block ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. —Wildflowers are blooming this year in California as the Golden State received ample precipitation from early winter storms. The Bureau of Land Management asks visitors to enjoy ...

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NBC Connecticut Investigates wanted to learn more about the safety record of the New England Central Railroad that was involved in Thursday's derailment in Mansfield. The railroad has been involved in ...