For too many kids, the schoolyard is just a sea of asphalt. In Chicago, thanks to an innovative, decade-old program called Space to Grow, dozens of these concrete lots have been undergoing a vibrant ...

At the $7 million playground that opened today in New York City, there are hundreds of giant foam shapes for kids to play with, and not a swing set in sight. The Imagination Playground is the latest ...

Rain falls from purple clouds at the touch of a button. Overgrown swizzle sticks entice kids to spin and spin and spin without falling down. At this state-of-the-art playground, slides shoot through ...

Natural playgrounds — with their wood, water and grass — have less in common with the primary-colored plastics of the 1990s and more in common with the nation's first playgrounds which sprung up in ...

Oh, to be a child again! The NY Times has a story about the city's efforts to develop a new playground concept for lower Manhattan. The city has been working with designer David Rockwell on a ...

When Amara Nwuneli was displaced by catastrophic floods in 2020, she was spurred into action. The then-12-year-old founded a nongovernmental organization, Preserve Our Roots, which aims to educate ...

CLEVELAND, OH, - Thursday, February 7, 2008 - The LeBron James Family Foundation today announced a nationwide initiative to build innovative and safe playgrounds for various communities across the ...

Carroll County Sheriff Daniel Klatt is on a mission to find out who a human skull found last year belongs to, hopefully matching it to one of several missing pe Partial Justice: Father of Sonya Massey ...