Rockhounders can find all kinds of gemstones across the United States, but there are certain places where geodes can be found ...

Real geodes are handball-sized, hollow rocks that start out as bubbles in volcanic or sedimentary rock. Only when these inconspicuous round rocks are split in half by a geologist, do we get a chance ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. A mysterious fire found inside a 350-year-old sycamore tree — believed to be the largest in Iowa — ...

Göttingen University researcher Fiorella Arduin Rode working in open pit mine of the study area, Los Catalanes mining district, northern Uruguay. Along with Ametista do Sul in southern Brazil, these ...

DULUTH — The news of Diona Johnson's sudden death last year stunned Twin Ports music fans who knew the singer-songwriter — also an activist and therapist — as one of the fastest-rising stars on the ...