Former President Joe Biden joined Minnesotans by the thousands who paid their respects to Melissa and Mark Hortman at the Minnesota Capitol on Friday, as the couple received one of the state’s highest ...

With its stench of rotting flesh and giant size, Cal Poly’s corpse flower attracts visitors from across SLO County.

The January wildfires burned jacaranda trees from Pasadena and Altadena to the Pacific Palisades. Some are burned at the base ...

Pride in past valor may be best expressed in the St. Crispin’s Day speech from “Henry V” (Act IV, Scene iii), delivered by the young king on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt.

TAMPA, Fla. — The Day of the Dead is a tradition typically celebrated in Mexico, as a way to honor loved ones who have passed away. For many people here in the U.S., they’ve continued to keep ...

Day of the Dead is a social holiday that spills into streets and public squares at all hours. People of all ages have their faces artfully painted to resemble skulls, donning fancy suits and gowns ...

Allianz Ireland and Women’s Aid have launched a powerful one-day activation called ‘The Dead Flower Shop’, which has been designed to look like an ordinary store from the outside.

With Day of the Dead weeks away, I wanted to talk to the owner of the flower shop about its sales of cempasuchil — or Mexican marigold — in the lead-up to the now popular celebrations at the ...

Fabiola Yzeta-Vincent, founder and executive director of Ottawa’s Day of the Dead Festival, says the lively fall event is all about living. “The celebration is about life, it’s not about ...

Volunteers decorated altars inside the ICA Watershed for a Day of the Dead exhibition. A skull mask decorating an altar was photographed while lens was zoomed during 1 second exposure.

Cempasúchil, Day of the Dead's iconic flower, adorns altars to deceased loved ones. Its uses stretch back to pre-Hispanic periods. Flower shops in Chicago are selling more marigolds than ever in ...