Moab resident and active community member Chad Harris died on July 1 during a trip to the 12,500-feet-high town of Puno, Peru. He was traveling with his 10- and 13-year old sons.

Lake Titicaca near Puno, Peru. The lake, at roughly 12,500 feet in elevation, is home to floating islands built of reeds by the Uros people, who believe it is the birthplace of the sun.

Peru's government has extended the state of emergency in the Puno region for 60 days, thus allowing the Joint Command of the Armed Forces to retain the Unified Command of the Armed Forces and the ...

Water levels at Lake Titicaca – the highest navigable lake in the world and South America’s largest – are dropping precipitously after an unprecedented winter heat wave. The shocking decline ...

Some of the bodies had bullet wounds, Puno’s regional health director, Ismael Cornejo, told local radio station RPP.

Peru has extended a state of emergency for another month in the capital city of Lima and two southern regions where deadly protests against the government have sparked the country's worst violence ...

Poverty in Puno has shot up to 80% as road blockades and boycotts hobble mining, tourism. Residents block a highway in Cabanillas in Peru’s Puno region on March 7.

NORMAN, OKLA. – An international research collaboration will address challenges associated with living at high altitudes by designing and building a model house in Puno, Peru. The project ...

LIMA, Peru — The mourners, thousands of them, stood by the coffins of 17 people killed by security forces in the remote region of Puno, staring down riot police and chanting, “Dina, murderer ...

An aerial view reveals geoglyphs fabricated by the community of Caritamaya following an ancestral agricultural system called Suka Q'ullus or Waru Waru, at a field in the Acora district in Puno, Peru.

Dozens of protesters attempted to take over an airport near Peru's border with Bolivia Friday as part of anti-government protests, prompting police to use tear gas to disperse them.