The competition at the annual Great Pumpkin Weigh-Off at the Irvine Park Railroad was massive this year. And not just because of the voluminous gourds tipping the scales toward the unbelievable – ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A pumpkin can don a Halloween costume too with the help of an ice cream scoop, a hammer and a few power tools. Onlookers dodged flying chunks of pumpkin guts as a 1,500-pound ...

A Minnesota horticulture teacher remained the reigning champion Monday of an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California where his massive gourds have won the top prize four years in a row.

Andy Corbin runs an ancestry website—for gigantic pumpkins. The IT worker started growing pumpkins 15 years ago. To help figure out which seeds to use, he built a database that now traces the family ...

Minnesota pumpkin grower Travis Gienger has done it again, winning Half Moon Bay honors Monday with a gourd that registered 2,471 pounds on the scales. At the Safeway 51st annual World Championship ...

If Cinderella’s fairy godmother needed a pumpkin for her carriage, this year’s Iowa State Fair would have offered plenty of choices. But none would have matched the 1,409-pound giant grown by Pete ...

With Halloween coming up soon, many Coloradans are picking out their pumpkins or even growing their own. The Colorado School of Mines has joined in on the fun, showcasing one of its students' great ...