As evening falls, Jess Aidley enjoys watching the lights twinkling in the apartment blocks transforming the waterfront in Shoreham-by-Sea from her houseboat, a 19th century Thames lighter barge named ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Fifty years ago today, an explosion at the Scotia coal mine in Letcher County, Kentucky, killed 15 miners. Two days later, a second methane explosion ripped through the mine, killing 11 ...

Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a virtual halt, unleashing the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.

Discover the history of daylight saving time, its origins, wartime adoption, and ongoing debates about energy, society, and ...

The Village Voice reviews the "The Second Printing Revolution: Invention of Mass Media," a fascinating exhibition at the Grolier Club.

South Africa is deindustrialising rapidly and the Vaal Triangle is ground zero. Daily Maverick went to the Vaal to see how the economic collapse is unfolding.

The wooden support beams overhead are a constant reminder that you’re inside a mountain, and the only thing between you and several million tons of rock is some timber and engineering that’s held up ...

Arts, entertainment, film, festivals and more events happening this week in the greater Capital Region from Thursday, March 12, through Wednesday, March 18 ...

Some Pennsylvania towns grew naturally over centuries, their identities emerging organically from geography and circumstance. Then there’s Jim Thorpe, which decided to purchase its identity wholesale ...

If you have any of these kits in your collection, you might be sitting on plastic brick gold! Check out the most valuable LEGO sets!

These four country songs all came out in 1970, but are so good, country music fans will remember them forever.

Longtime Louisville & Nashville Railroad employee Charles Castner died last month at the age of 97. He co-wrote a book in ...