Christmas

Amazon to hire a quarter-million new workers as holiday shopping season nears

Asher Notheis · September 19, 2023 9:19 pm

Raleigh denies permit for Christmas parade after girl was killed by truck last year

Jenny Goldsberry · September 15, 2023 3:24 pm

Washington Secrets

PETA versus Hallmark and the grinning chimps

Paul Bedard · July 14, 2023 1:33 pm

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! sequel book set to hit shelves

Luke Gentile · February 23, 2023 8:10 pm

Russia shells Kramatorsk and Kherson ahead of unilateral Christmas ceasefire

Mike Brest · January 6, 2023 3:20 pm

Darrell Evans prepares live Christmas trees for sale at Christmas Tree Jamboree in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2021. Extreme weather and supply chain disruptions have reduced supplies of both real and artificial trees this season. American shoppers should expect to have fewer choices and pay up to 30% more for both types this Christmas, industry officials say.

Energy and Environment

How and where you can recycle your Christmas tree in DC

Cami Mondeaux · January 1, 2023 10:00 am

Cancellation-plagued Southwest has raked in billions from US government for upkeep

Gabe Kaminsky · December 28, 2022 4:44 pm

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem

SEE IT: Kristi Noem gets red-hot Christmas gift

Heather Hamilton · December 28, 2022 1:15 pm

Buffalo couple shelters body of woman who died in the cold during Christmas Eve rescue attempt

Samuel Schaffer · December 28, 2022 4:29 am

Police help Santa deliver presents after porch pirate tries to steal Christmas

Luke Gentile · December 27, 2022 5:52 pm

Workers use cables and straps to lift a large Christmas tree into place on the Atlantic City, New Jersey, boardwalk on Monday, Nov. 14, 2022. The 50-foot-tall blue spruce from Harleysville, North Carolina, was put up outside the Showboat hotel and will be lit on Nov. 29.

Energy and Environment

Branching out: Recycling programs launch across US to give Christmas trees new life

Steff Thomas · December 27, 2022 4:37 pm

Aldo, a three-week-old pygmy hippopotamus, (Choeropsis liberiensis) eats at the Vincennes zoo, outside Paris, Tuesday, June 26, 2007.

‘No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses’: Virginia zoo gets rare hippo for Christmas

Heather Hamilton · December 27, 2022 2:35 pm