Spend a few days with astronomers at the world's most sophisticated telescopes in the mountains of Chile, and your skin will begin to feel different. Cheeks become stretched a little tighter; hands and lips get chapped. It seems to make little ...

Alma's Fury is an unlikely starter at Warwick Farm on Saturday with trainer Paul Murray indicating he will wait for the Apollo Stakes. Murray said the in-form Alma's Fury would not run in Saturday's Warwick Farm Handicap (1600m) if the track was slow or heavy.

There was no shortage of drama in the Alma Heights Christian gym last Friday night, as the Eagles pulled off a 73-61 win in double overtime against league rival Mid Peninsula. The Eagles celebrated their homecoming before the game and the two ...

Four scholarships to local persons have been awarded by the Alma Area Used Book Sale Group recently. A total of $4300 will be used for educational expenses by these Gratiot County residents. The money has been allocated from the profits of the ...

ALMA, Mich. (AP) -- A weekend fire gutted a fraternity house at Alma College. The Morning Sun of Mount Pleasant says no injuries were reported following the early Sunday blaze at the Tau Kappa Epsilon house in Alma. About 20 to 30 people at the house at ...

Alma put some distance between itself and the rest of the 5A-West on Friday. Alma scored just three baskets in the second half but beat Morrilton 52-49 with pinpoint shooting from the free-throw line. Alma (17-2, 8-0) made 14-of-16 from the foul line in ...

Tyler George, Alma Intermediate School fifth-grader, clinched his win of the 2012 Crawford County Spelling Bee on Saturday by successfully spelling the word “access,” according to county bee coordinator Jami Anne Balkman. Tyler, competing against 50 ...

Most people remember, know of or have at least heard of the trailer companies, Republic Truck, the sugar beet factory and refinery – all the Alma businesses that came, flourished for a while and then left. Once thriving, these businesses often ...

ONE of Bristol's best known and most unusual pubs as been put up for sale. The Alma Tavern and Theatre, right, in the centre Clifton is one of the only pubs in the country to come complete with its own theatre. The theatre first opened its doors in 1997 ...

Jason Solomons talks to Alma Har'el, director of acclaimed documentary Bombay Beach, about the "lost" town on California's Salton Sea, and is joined by Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw to look over Carnage, Young Adult, and the best of the ...