Now local governments and a nonprofit are looking to do the same thing on an old rail corridor north of Durham. The Durham-to-Roxboro Rail Trail would stretch 26 miles from Old No ...

A river runs through it: Spokane, Washington, is a marvelous synthesis of city and wilderness, historic and contemporary that ...

The Mitchell City Council will consider approval of nearly $1.2 million worth of bills, equipment and capital improvements at its regular meeting on Feb. 3. In what should be a shorter council meeting ...

It's the perfect activity to relish in the winter wonderland that Friday's snow brought us. Visitors can take a nostalgic trip aboard a historic steam powered railway, or they can ...

Nome, Alaska, remembers its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, ...

The number of incarcerated people nationwide has declined, and almost 200 correctional facilities have closed in the past 20 years. The sites are being repurposed.

Both Davenport and Scott County discussed federal funding that may be at risk. Bettendorf too faces uncertainty about ...

Not far from where Ceci Carroll lives, a rock-mining company has polluted the air with dust across the San Gabriel Valley, ...

Take President Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Kennedy, a well-known vaccine skeptic, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy, whose Senate confirmation hearing was Wednesday, ...

Richard Brunswick is a retired primary care physician in Northampton. His father was a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army and ...

Gunnar Kaasen poses with his original dog team, including his lead dog Balto, top row, second left, in 1925, which he drove through a blinding blizzard to ...