The Abilene City Commission held an eventful regular meeting Monday, May 11 with items involving the hiring of a full-time city manager and a possible new owner of the Sunflower Hotel.

Grammy winner Lainey Wilson and Devlin "Duck" Hodges tied the knot at a historic limestone cave in Dickson, Tennessee, with a ...

Yasuyuki Aono kept track of bloom dates for Yamazakura cherry trees in Kyoto. nanamori via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 The death of a beloved scientist left empty an idiosyncratic but ...

The remarkable catalog of dates is one of the longest-running records of climate change. Its creator died, setting off a search for a successor. By Hiroko Tabuchi For more than 1,200 years, Japanese ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeff Benjamin is a New York-based writer covering global pop music. But looking ahead to April and beyond, there are loads of ...

Fairhaven is known for its whaling roots, postcard-worthy architecture, and historic landmarks, but it also holds a surprising piece of history as the home of the first Japanese person to live in ...

The blossoms are blooming in the Elm City, which can mean only one thing — the Cherry Blossom Festival is here. Wooster Square in New Haven will host its 52nd annual Cherry Blossom Festival on Sunday, ...

Visitors from far and wide have been traveling to Japan — and now government officials will be raising their tourist tax in an effort to curb overtourism. Japan will be tripling its international ...

Each spring, we look out our windows to find a startling surprise: The cherry blossoms are in bloom again. Once bare, our backyard branches are now cloudlike, full of pink, white, and purple flowers.

Pink and white cherry blossoms dot the thin, long branches of the trees in Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. The trees will reach full bloom in the next few days, and Chicago Park District staff ...

The spring bloom of cherry blossoms is a stunning sight. Across Japan, Korea, and places like Washington, D.C., the trees burst with dense, pink flowers for just one or two weeks, bringing millions of ...

The history of the roughly 200 cherry trees scattered across Penn’s campus stretches back more than a century. Many of Philadelphia’s first cherry blossoms — now an unmistakable sign of springtime — ...