A year after being lauded for its plan to replace thousands of aging, gas-powered mail trucks with a mostly electric fleet, ...

Rose Hammond pushed authorities for years to lower the 55-mph speed limit on a two-lane road that passes her assisted-living ...

Beneath red banners and a gold bust of revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi’s central party school, Communist Party ...

John-Paul Sager appreciates the care he has received at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics, but he thinks ...

Akie Iwai joined twin sister Chisato as a rookie LPGA Tour winner Sunday at Columbia Edgewater, closing with a 6-under 66 for a four-stroke victory in The Standard Portland Class ...

A club shooting in the New York City borough of Brooklyn early Sunday left three people dead and nine others wounded in a year of record-low gun violence in the city.

Spain is deploying a further 500 soldiers to battle wildfires that have torn through parched woodland during a prolonged spell of scorching weather, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez sai ...

Rescuers recovered dozens more bodies from the rubble of collapsed homes in a northwestern district of Pakistan, bringing the death toll to at least 274, as authorities defended thei ...

Coleman, who worked in the cannabis industries in California and Nevada, said Washington has the cheapest market by far, making profitability difficult.

Hurricane Erin weakened to a Category 3 hurricane on Sunday, its outer bands lashing the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, as forecasters warned the storm was rapidly growing in ...

The fatal explosion last week at U.S. Steel’s Pittsburgh-area coal-processing plant has revived debate about its future just as the iconic American company was emerging from a long p ...

In San Francisco Bay, salt ponds created more than a century ago are reverting to marshland. Along the New York and New Jersey coasts, beaches ravaged by Superstorm Sandy underwent extensive restorati ...