As they prepared for the 42nd annual Great Hiwassee River Raft Race, the Scouts from Troop 10 in Cleveland, Tennessee, had a plan: Finish with the fastest time. The Scouts…

Robert Siemann, 18, was at his home in Albertson, N.Y., when he heard loud noises coming from outside. Siemann and his father ran to investigate and saw that a garbage…

Scouts and their parents expect all Boy Scouts of America activities to be conducted safely this summer. A summer of safe Scouting begins before the first arrow is launched and…

Their names are splashed across Scout councils, camps, museums and awards, but who were the men who helped create the Scouting program? Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (1857-1941) In October 1899, several…

What’s going on in this picture? What is that soccer player doing or thinking? If you can think of a funny caption for this photo, just post it in the…

Ten years after helping develop the Chess merit badge, the Saint Louis Chess Club continues teaching the badge to hundreds of Scouts every year. In 2020, when the pandemic forced…

More than one in three American adults — about 88 million — have prediabetes (higher than normal blood sugar levels), and most are unaware they have the condition. It’s a…

Picture a stack of 174 newspapers, each 85 pages thick. Back in 2007, researcher Martin Hilbert calculated that’s how much information the average person received every single day. And that…

Some of us remember a time when backpacking and camping could be fairly described as “roughing it.” You could say that today’s air mattresses put the question of sleeping comfortably…

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area is one of the coolest parts of the country. It’s about 1 million acres of wilderness along the northern border of Minnesota and home to…