The winter solstice is the day we have our shortest day and our longest night. Typically, it falls on Dec. 21 or Dec. 22 (only a few days before Christmas) in the Northern Hemisphere, and on June ...

Opinion editor’s note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. Despite this week being the darkest of the year, there’s been a focus ...

The winter solstice marks the official start of winter and the day of the year with the longest recorded hours of darkness. But don't be fooled, this day brings forth light and wisdom from within ...

Winter solstice marks the shortest day of year and the official first day of winter. 5 of 10 Which Christmas-time phenomenon involves a popular holiday product parents place around their home to ...

I’ve not been sleeping that well. The winter darkness makes me feel tired early in the evening, and my aging body seems to have forgotten how to sleep through the night. I wake at 3 a.m., in ...

Historian Lucy Worsley traces the roots of Christmas by exploring the Anglo-Saxon tradition, wassailing where people sing to the apple trees to celebrate the winter solstice. Watch the full ...

The winter solstice - usually 21 December - is likely to fall during the Christmas holiday. It can be used at other times of the year to celebrate the beauty of the natural world and to support ...

In 2023, the winter solstice takes place on Friday 22 December ... It also marks the beginning of the Christmas season. Dongzhi is an important festival in the Chinese calendar and roughly ...

Now that the winter solstice has passed, the Colorado continues to gain precious minutes of sunlight each day until the summer solstice on Friday, June 20. The 5:30 p.m. sunset on Monday ...

Celebrated during the winter solstice, Christmas is the annual festival that recounts the birth of a human savior, God in the flesh in the form of an infant. The birth stories describe God not as ...