A shark was spotted unusually far from home on Monday, having ventured from the ocean into a body of water further inland. The shark was spotted in Lake Merritt, a tidal lagoon in Oakland, California.

House lawmakers on Thursday passed measures that would ban buying and selling shark fins in the United States and help the country combat illegal fishing as part of the annual defense spending bill.

DULUTH — From spring 2020 until fall 2023, a sign on the Glensheen grounds promised to answer a question the mansion's builder, Chester Congdon, would have been surprised it was ever necessary to ask.

A shark bit a Lakeview boy swimming with his family in Lake Pontchartrain Friday afternoon. The attack happened off of Southshore Harbor. Shelly Trentacosta said her family had borrowed a friend's ...