Autumn's reds, browns and golds streak the surrounding Black Forest. Buzzards wheel in the air above. But from a football business perspective, this beauty is sterile desert.

Is Germany's Black Forest worth the trip? Rick Steves shares a surprising opinion on one of Europe's most iconic and frequently visited destinations.

Climate change is leaving its mark on the bog complexes of the German Black Forest. Due to rising temperatures and longer dry periods, two plant species have gone extinct over the last 40 years.

Hundreds of police combed Germany’s Black Forest on Monday for a Rambo-style homeless man wearing combat gear and armed with a bow and arrow who disarmed four officers at gunpoint.

ENZKLOSTERLE, Germany (AP) — The Black Forest gets its name from a canopy of trees so dense that the woods seem dark, pierced only by shafts of sunlight. Mushrooms sprout ...

In Germany’s southwest corner, the Black Forest (“Schwarzwald”) is a range of hills stretching east of the Rhine River. Ancient Romans found the thick forests here inaccessible and ...

Here, Freddy Boch, owner of Hotel Engel, has been making the gateaux for three decades using his grandfather’s recipe. Every two years, he organises the Black Forest Cake Festival, where a panel ...

THE FAIRY TALE version of Germany still exists, more than anywhere else, in the Black Forest. Villages of half-timbered houses dot deep valleys in the shadow of mountainsides thick with spruce and ...

Kudakwashe Makoni, 44, a chef from Harare, Zimbabwe, insisted that his nation’s cows lend a distinctly rich flavor to the cake’s cream. “Nobody does a Black Forest like Zimbabwe,” he said.