Jenny Shima, owner of The Literary, is converting a historic Champaign home into a space for weekend reading retreats and ...

Eugene's housing stock is just as quirky as the city. Here are three local home listings that exemplify "Zillow Gone Wild." ...

Built from recycled materials, the self-sustaining dwellings offer buyers freedom from conventional suburban living and its ...

Sometimes you need a vacation that’s less “relaxing beach resort” and more “what if I just lived in a fantasy novel for a weekend?” The Amazing Hobbit House on 35 Acres With Epic View in Weaverville, ...

Hobbit houses have become far more popular than anyone could have anticipated in the past few decades, but that has as much to do with their architectural properties as the connection to Tolkien’s ...

Researchers fed a Komodo dragon a goat to figure out if Homo floresiensis truly were the hunters they were originally thought to be. Researchers thought that the ancient human relative known as Homo ...

A first edition of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien that was discovered among a pile of "fairly ordinary" donations at a charity shop has sold for £38,400. The much-loved fantasy novel, a first edition, ...

Mike Darnay is a digital producer and photojournalist at CBS Pittsburgh. Mike has also written and produced content for Vox Media and the Mon Valley Independent. He often covers overnight breaking ...

A kid-sized "Hobbit house" has become a hit with online gardeners, thanks to its earth-sheltered design, plant-covered top, and the fact that it seems to improve with age. Its builder expected the ...

House Republican leaders are set to send the chamber home early for the second week in a row amid mounting tensions after GOP rebels on Tuesday again blocked action on the House floor. Leaders will ...

A group of 14 House Republicans on Tuesday joined Democrats to block a procedural rule needed to advance a slate of bills, jeopardizing Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)’s plans to advance this week’s ...

House Republican leaders canceled votes on multiple major bills and sent lawmakers home for a nearly two week recess Tuesday after a handful of GOP members rebelled on the floor and effectively halted ...