Gianni Rodari used puns, topsy-turvyism and zany names to invent stories for children and help children invent their own.

A mother accused of letting her underage daughter wax adults has been indicted on child abuse and neglect charges.

New owners have purchased one of the Mother Lode’s oldest post-Gold Rush era schoolhouses, known in the past as Poverty Hill ...

Shorewood High School cracked down. Under a new schoolwide policy, students now have to check their phones into caddies – hanging sheets full of pouches – as they walk into every classroom.

Criminals are misusing Google's Gemini AI for reconnaissance, coding, and evading detection. AI scams are evolving, with ...

An extensive search for bodies in the Potomac River is continuing after an American Airlines passenger jet and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter collided midair. Follow live.

The film, now screening at Sundance, follows Dennis (Sweeney) and Roman (Dylan O’Brien), two young men who meet in a ...

HubSpot cofounder Dharmesh Shah is betting that artificial intelligence advances will go far beyond the basic ...

Hum by Helen Phillips, our November/December Book Club pick, is an all-too-possible projection of how tech might make our ...

After 28 years in the industry, I'm taking a new path As I leave the Register — and journalism — to start a new adventure ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or less and are subject to editing for grammar and clarity. Publication of ...

Just imagine what might happen if our annual single-day tradition of giving thanks were to become a daily routine.