St. Louis County officials say creating a land bank will give them tools to address abandoned buildings. But an expert on population decline sees it as a warning sign.

Bodie, California Nestled in the heart of California, Bodie once thrived as a bustling gold-mining town during the late 1800s ...

Many American cities have dire public transport systems, but it hasn't always been this way. How did they get so bad and how ...

The sudden scapegoating of the once-bipartisan agency has left front-line workers in foreign countries stunned and abandoned, without even a contact in Washington.

Learn more about the recent discovery of Indigenous woman Aubrey Dameron's remains, six years after she went missing in ...

While "right-sizing" usually means laying off people six levels below the executives who decide they are dispensable, in this case it means knocking down two of the RenCen's four 39-story towers, ...

The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...

A coalition of lawmakers in Hancock County are working on a slate of bills that could allow Maine towns to band together and ...

A car crashed on Mill Lane in Swindon some time ago – it’s not clear exactly when – and since then the wreck has been left abandoned. So locals have been left with raised eyebrows after a ...

One such place is the abandoned medieval town-fortress of Cherven in Bulgaria. Located about 30 kilometres south of Ruse within the national park of Rusenski Los, it is easy to access by car and ...

MIDDLEBORO — Most people think of Middleboro as a quiet town. But the municipality was once one of the largest settlements in the early United States. According to data from the 1790 United ...