The excitement was building as a crowd of hundreds hugged their arms together, half naked, on the gravelly shore of Sanders Beach in Coeur d’Alene on New Year’s Day morning. A slow drum beat ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — More than a thousand people in Alaska dressed up as elves or in other elaborate costumes, while some stripped down to barely anything to take part in a polar plunge. The ...

Religious figures were given a baptism of ice as they joined the summer’s fundraising craze. Staff at Chichester Cathedral took delight in pouring iced water over the heads of the Cathedral’s acting ...