Clear the Shelters, a nationwide pet adoption drive to help animals in need finding loving homes, will take place on Saturday, August 19. This year’s event hosts, celebrity chef Katie Lee and Beth Stern, stopped by the “Today Show” to talk about the initiative. They also brought along a few rescues from North Shore Animal League America in Port Washington,...

Former “Top Chef” Fatima Ali says she has a year to live. The 29-year-old underwent surgery to remove a tumor in January. However, Ali wrote Tuesday in an essay for Bon Appetit that the “cancer cells my doctors believed had vanished are back with a vengeance in my left hip and femur bone.” Ali says her oncologist told her she...

As firefighters in Northern California’s wine country race to contain the devastating Kincade Fire that has ripped through more than 76,000 acres and destroyed 86 homes, a group of well-known Bay Area chefs have come together to feed the thousands of displaced evacuees and first responders.

The watch towers, double-locked doors and video surveillance in the Chinese camps are there “to prevent escapes.” Uighurs and other minorities held inside are scored on how well they speak the dominant Mandarin language and follow strict rules on everything down to bathing and using the toilet, scores that determine if they can leave. “Manner education” is mandatory, but “vocational...

ABC’s “Fresh Off the Boat” is coming to an end after six seasons. The network said Friday that the comedy about an Asian American family in the 1990s will wrap with an hour-long finale.

For decades, the Medford Police Department didn’t know who was sending them plates homemade pizzelle, a kind of Italian cookie. When they found out, they showed her their gratitude.

An outbreak of wildfires outside Los Angeles on Wednesday threatened thousands of structures, narrowly bypassing the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, while Northern California also continues battling resource-straining blazes. With California tinder dry and fires burning in both the north and south, the state was at the mercy of gusty winds, on high alert for any new flames that could run...

Firefighters are battling the Easy Fire in Simi Valley, California. The blaze began early Wednesday morning.

President Donald Trump says he will watch the Washington Nationals play in the fifth game of the World Series. Chef José Andrés, not the president, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch.

Popular chef Carl Ruiz has died, his restaurant confirmed on Sunday.

As a humanitarian crisis unfolds in the Bahamas, a local chef and restaurateur is going back to his culinary roots — as a line chef in the devastated country. If you’ve driven I-93 through New Hampshire, chances are you’ve seen, eaten or stayed at one of Alex Ray’s 23 Common Man establishments. He isn’t your typical CEO, he...

Could “Friends” fans BE any luckier? Those who have snagged tickets to the New York City Pop-Up experience based on the comedy favorite will get to plop down on the orange couch at Central Perk, play foosball in Joey and Chandler’s apartment and marvel at Rachel’s haircuts through the show’s 10 seasons.

California Live welcomed Kelly Clarkson and her crew to the NBC Lot ahead of her talk show debut with the delicious Cousins Maine Lobster food truck.

A hearing on the indecent assault and battery case against celebrity chef Mario Batali is scheduled. A judge is slated to hear arguments Wednesday from lawyers at a pre-trial hearing in Boston Municipal Court. It’s not immediately clear what issues will be addressed.

Famous D.C. chef and restauranteur José Andrés is in the Bahamas as his charity gears up to help in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian.

A hearing has been held in the indecent assault and battery case against celebrity chef Mario Batali. A spokeswoman for Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins said Batali didn’t attend Friday’s hearing at Boston Municipal Court and wasn’t required to. She also said no trial date was set. The case returns to court Sept. 4.

A hearing in the case against Mario Batali is scheduled for Friday.

The head chef at a renowned Grand Central restaurant, who has been missing since the weekend, was found dead in Queens, police confirmed Thursday.

When chef, restauranteur, and TV host Alex Guarnaschelli isn’t holding court at her NYC restaurant, Butter, she’s chilling in her bright and relaxing Bridgehampton home. She shows us why this is the perfect place to kick back and whip up a casual feast for her and her daughter. See for yourself.

The opening of Encore Boston Harbor and its many restaurants has brought new competition to Boston’s dining scene. With more 5,000 positions initially advertised, the casino has prompted many longtime servers to leave some of the city’s most popular spots.