More than 200 years ago, Benjamin Franklin advanced the research of electricity by flying a kite. Now, a German company is taking a slightly different tack on that old idea by using kites to generate ...

Saturday’s spring temperatures beckoned area families outdoors to Rosewood Beach to take part in a kite-flying adventure. Up Up and Away, hosted by the Park District of Highland Park, provided ...

It’s a simple structure that brings so much happiness, and that joy isn’t a newfound feeling. The joy of kite flying is so prevalent that in 1760, Japan banned kite flying due to the number of people ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The 21st annual Arvada Kite Festival was an enormous affair when it took to the air in April. Hundreds of families dispersed over the grass fields of the ...

Vendors sell kites in a market area near Mochi Gate ahead of the springtime festival Basant in Lahore, Pakistan. This is the first time in 19 years that the kite festival has been held legally in the ...