• New Year's Eve celebrations kick off as 2026 arrives around the world

  

• Sports betting in Chicago to continue amid challenge to city's tax and licensing law

  

• Vikings will end season with noon game against Packers on Sunday

  

• 2025 was so hot it pushed Earth past critical climate change mark

  

• Red Rocks was best-attended amphitheater and second-best-attended U.S. venue

  

• Sun's Bria Hartley makes Minnesota her off-season home

  

• Toews joins roster for Team Canada at 2026 Winter Olympics

  

• Islanders victorious over slumping Blackhawks 3-2