Eating healthy foods and staying fit can be a challenge over the festive holiday season. For many, the holiday season stretches over four weeks and includes parties, dinners and celebrations with festive foods. Unfortunately, holiday eating can also …

The International Fountain and holiday lights greet visitors at Seattle Center’s Winterfest. For a full schedule of Winterfest events, see seattlecenter.com

to pick these up and give them a try. There are nine different scents: Chocolate Milkshake, Tangerine Dreams, Key Lime Kooler, Buttercream Cupcake, Creamy Cocolada, Blackberry Blast, Berrylicious, Banana Bliss, Appletini.

They made 306 blankets, 117 coloring books, 38 scarves, 24 hygiene kits and 12 baby blankets for The Road Home. But one number eclipses all the others: $14,010 — the amount of money Jordan High students raised for the organization, which helps …

With field trips to the zoo and pumpkin patches, juggling presentations from Cornell University students and staff who dress up as pirates to celebrate “Pirate Day,” Northeast Kids Count is not your typical after-school program.

So this is New Year’s Day. And what have you done, besides suck up every holiday cookie, piece of gingerbread, glass of seasonal nog and mini quiche in sight, as well as replace your usual workout with a series of parties, tree-trimmings and other …

The 13 children and “Mom and Dad”, Manuel and Catalina, of the Casa Hogar Impacto de Amor Orphanage in the Otay Torres neighborhood of Tijuana are getting the Christmas “present of a lifetime” this year – literally a new home. Just six …

Middle age becomes me — like it or not, ready or not — I knew it had laid its claim on me a full moon and change ago, after sampling a cup of Starbucks “Joy” tea. “Didn’t take,” I informed the barista, “You must’ve slipped me a cup of …

T he way the posts of Governor have been allowed to remain vacant in six crucial states, it would seem that the issue is not exactly the top priority with the Centre. Strictly speaking, Governors do not engage in day-to-day governance, but their …

(ARA) – Jam thumbprints, peanut butter blossoms, sugar cookies decorated with colored sugars and icings and gingerbread cookies – just the images of them in your mind can conjure up the smells of yummy Christmas cookies baking in the oven.