Last week, Dept. of Transportation officials celebrated the groundbreaking of America’s first high-speed rail line between LA and Las Vegas. The Brightline West will travel at 320 kilometers per hour or around 200 mph, which for American readers is standard for high-speed rail around the world. Expected to be finished in four years, Brightline is […] The post First High-Speed Rail Line in US Breaks Ground on the Brightline–Vegas to LA at 200 mph Saving Thousands in Emissions appeared first on Good News Network ..read more

A statue fragment of the great pharaoh Ramses II has been recovered in a joint effort and repatriated to Egypt. Carved 3,400 years ago, it was stolen from the Temple of Ramses in the southern Egyptian site of Abydos over 30 years ago. Shaaban Abdel Gawad, who heads Egypt’s antiquities repatriation agency, said the piece […] The post 3,400 y-o King Ramses II Statue Head Returned to Egypt After Theft appeared first on Good News Network ..read more

A nerve-wracking scene unfolded as Colorado wildlife officials pulled all the stops to rescue two young mountain lions in the path of a deluge of trouble. A worker at the Pine River Irrigation District Dam was about to release a large amount of water down a concrete spillway when he spotted the yearlings at the […] The post Watch Rope-Dangling Rescue of Young Mountain Lions Before Dam Deluge ‘Likely Would Have Drowned Them’ appeared first on Good News Network ..read more

A wildlife fan has struck up an extraordinary friendship with a young fox after he noticed she was ill. Bob Dunlop realized the fox had developed mange on her tail after spying her lack of hair on wildlife cameras set up near his home in Littleport, Cambridgeshire. The 69-year-old worked out where the animal’s den […] The post Man Reveals Heart-Warming Friendship With Young Fox That He Cured of Illness in the Wild appeared first on Good News Network ..read more

David Bowie would love this! There are spiders from Mars—if you believe these photos. Incredible images taken by the European Space Agency’s spacecraft, the Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), shows distinctive arachnid shapes. The apparent creepy crawlies are actually small, dark features that form when spring sunshine falls on layers of carbon […] The post Spiders From Mars? Phenomenon Evokes David Bowie Song in These Photos Taken Near South Pole of Red Planet appeared first on Good News Network ..read more

A rubber duck that escaped a failed world record race 18 years ago has been found by a teen washed up on a beach 423 miles away. The record attempt, held in Dublin in the summer of 2006, was part of “World Duck Race Ireland” which corralled 150,000 rubber ducks at the starting line in […] The post Rubber Duck Washes Up 18 Years After it Lost a River Race and Headed for the Hills–400 Miles Away appeared first on Good News Network ..read more

A survey of 2,000 travel-loving adults found that one in five people long for another vacation again the day they get back and another 27% said this feeling wells up within a week. Looking ahead, the average respondent wants to spend 15 days on vacation in 2024, after the average said they grabbed 11 days […] The post One in 5 Americans ‘Always’ Think About Planning Their Next Vacation–While On Vacation: New Survey appeared first on Good News Network ..read more

Jack and Bronwyn were both born prematurely in the same hospital at the same time. After he was born at 30 weeks, and she was delivered after just 26 weeks, their families forged a friendship during the many weeks spent waiting in the neonatal ward in 1994. After finally going home from Queen’s Medical Centre […] The post Couple Who Met as ‘Miracle Babies’ in Hospital Were Meant to Be Together–Now Have a Child of Their Own appeared first on Good News Network ..read more

Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote […] The post Your Weekly Horoscope – ‘Free Will Astrology’ From Rob Brezsny appeared first on Good News Network ..read more

From Lantana, Florida comes the story of a courageous teenager who rescued a woman adrift in the fast current of a canal carrying rainwater out to the Atlantic. The rescue won the young man the Carnegie Hero Award, as well as a local, full-ride scholarship to the Boynton Fire and Rescue Academy to cover the […] The post Florida Teen Wins Prestigious Carnegie Award and Full-Ride Scholarship After Daring Rescue appeared first on Good News Network ..read more