President Trump's threats to annex Canada have unleashed a wave of patriotic fervor in this famously friendly nation. (SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images) ...

A habitat-preservation effort is protecting 454 acres along the Appalachian Mountains in northwestern New Jersey, a land conservation group announced. The Nature Conservancy last week said it ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity is seriously considering a run for governor in 2026, as the GOP race to challenge Gov. Josh Shapiro heats up. Garrity, who replaced ...

Let’s put some numbers behind a trend you might have already observed for yourself: There are simply a mind-boggling number of new hotels opening all around the world. In your hometown, the next ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and BPR, a public radio station serving western North Carolina. Earlier this year, elected officials from 18 towns and counties ...

The Atlantic provinces have fallen on hard economic times, amplified by the collapse of offshore fishing stocks, and are regarded by some of their fellow Canadians as kind of a frozen Appalachia.

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Kirkland Lake Mayor Stacy Wight is adamantly opposed to a new provincial government proposal that will give what is known as “strong powers” to the heads of council. The move will add “strong powers” ...

Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates credited her predecessor Karen Lewis with three words: “I blame her.” That message sent laughter across the room of CTU allies gathered ...

China has strongly criticised US Vice-President J.D. Vance for characterising the Chinese as “peasants” amid the escalating trade war, calling his remarks “ignorant and disrespectful ...

In the book, Vance chronicles a childhood plagued by poverty, abuse and his mother’s drug addiction and spent partly in Appalachia, a corner of the United States he felt had been forgotten by ...