Editor's note: This story was originally published on Dec. 18, 2017. The wishes scribbled and stapled to Winterhaven's Wishing Tree each year actually double as data for a science project that began ...

There are many ways to convey a wish — a shooting star, four-leaf clover or a penny tossed into a fountain — but those short on good luck tokens need look no further than Sherman Library & Gardens.

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — An Air Force spouse who started an annual wishing tree in her front yard at this airlift hub in western Tokyo nearly gave up the practice this year. Then the base experienced ...

SEATTLE — A quiet street corner in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood actually has a lot to say. On the corner of East Galer and 21st Avenue East, thousands of people have written their desires on ...

The Detroit Zoo's holiday Wishing Tree hears it all: We want health insurance, warmer weather, tires, a Super Bowl win for the Lions. On the recent bitterly cold night the Free Press visited, a man ...