Slowly, surely, and mainly below the radar, an 11-kilometer (nearly seven-mile) stretch of the Jordan River is being transformed into water that is safe for swimming again. It is not yet rid of ...

WEST JORDAN — Work is getting underway again to give the Jordan River ecosystem a boost. Various entities gathered at the Big Bend Restoration Area on Friday to celebrate the beginning of a new ...

It's a geographical nod to the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea and the protracted tensions between Palestinians and Israeli Jews who live there. But what does it actually mean?

ALONG THE JORDAN RIVER (AP) — The Bible says Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River. The river’s eastern bank, modern-day Jordan, and its western one both house baptismal sites, where rituals ...

"I looked over, and at about that time, all of this just fell into the river." He was pointing at pavement from the Jordan River Trail that had crumbled and fallen several feet into the Jordan River.

Fishery managers think they can. This month, 100,000 whitefish eggs were placed in the Jordan River as part of an experimental effort by The Nature Conservancy in Michigan and state tribes ...

To clarify, that phrase is much older than Hamas and has historically been used to refer to the natural borders of historic Palestine as defined in the British Mandate: The Mediterranean Sea and the ...