NASA’s high-altitude WB-57 aircraft took off from Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston on Tuesday, and will conduct aerial surveys using its DyNAMITE (Day/Night Airborne Motion Imager for Terrestrial Environments) sensor.

Humanitarian efforts to transport young refugees to safety during World War II faced bureaucratic and political hurdles. Many were left behind.

On the one-year anniversary marking the passing of Christie Williams' dog, she decided to volunteer in his honor to give a canine from animal control a "freedom ride" to whichever rescue agreed to take them. But when she arrived and met Sarah, a blue nose pit bull, there was an instant connection.

Firefighters rescued dozens of people from a mixed commercial and residential high rise in Chile’s capital Thursday, plucking some from windows and balconies with ladder trucks and others from the roof by helicopter after a fire started in the building’s basement.

Park rangers in Colorado rescued a woman from drowning at the Horsetooth Reservoir on Thursday afternoon.

Eyewitness News got an exclusive look at the FDNY Water Rescue Unit training exercise to rescue distressed swimmers on Staten Island on Thursday.

The Alberni Valley Search and Rescue team says a missing hiker turned up at their hall, a day after search and rescue efforts were deployed. The hiker had been attempting to hike through the rugged area of Della Falls in Strathcona Provincial park,

Isolated showers and storms are ongoing tonight in Chicagoland. Heavy rain was falling over Chicago, leading to a Flash Flood Warning being issued for parts of Chicago and Cicero until 11:45 PM. Reports of water rescues and flooded viaducts have come in as over 5 inches of rain fell in parts of Chicago in about 90 minutes.