The nonprofit group Portland Nordic is renting snowmaking equipment with an eye toward an annual winter activity hub.

Quick! Before you read any further, pause, take a moment, and do your very best snow gun/snowmaking machine impression. Now, it’s time for some points of reference. Hunter Mountain, New York, recently ...

FILE - A semi-automatic pistol with a conversion device installed making it fully automatic is fired as four empty shell casings fly out of the weapon, at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and ...