The Water Lantern Festival is underway at Maryland’s National Harbor, where hundreds of people turned out Friday to participate in the opening event.

Open burning is not allowed in Longmont, and neither are sky lanterns. Michael Selan, Longmont’s senior fire code inspector, said the city adopted the 2015 edition of the international fire code, ...

LINCOLN — Brandon Morrison sees floating lanterns as more than a pretty sight on a clear night. After the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the Omahan organized a lantern ...

Like many Japanese traditions, the ritual of toro nagashi — setting a floating paper lantern adrift to accompany spirits of the departed back to Buddha's realm — has been embraced by the greater ...