Eco-lovers can now be buried in the world's first "living coffin" - which decomposes faster and is made out of mushrooms. The coffins are grown out of pliable mycelium - a mat of fibers and upcycled ...

Between midnight Tuesday and 9 a.m. Wednesday, some 37,000 Appalachian Power Co. customers lost electricity, all but 1,000 of ...

Without federal support, American communities will struggle to deal with a challenge as pervasive as climate change, market ...

MILLINOCKET, Maine – Mount Katahdin is one of Maine's crown jewels. The centerpiece of Baxter State Park, its summit is the ...

A showing of “O Pioneer” at the Capitol Arts Center took audience members across the hills and hollers of West Virginia and ...

Snow, sleet and freezing rain were expected to continue pummeling the central Appalachians and mid-Atlantic states Wednesday, while California readied for a storm that could flood areas ravaged by the ...

North Carolinians have won more than $5.5 billion since the state legalized gambling 10 months ago, the N.C. State Lottery Commission reported Monday. For now, the record monthly total remains the ...

SCOTT HUNTER is retiring as fire chief in Bedford at the end of March. To the surprise of probably no one who knows him, though, his idea of taking it easy involves hiking more than 2,190 miles from ...

North Augusta resident Milledge Murray shared insight on two of his ancestors who played major roles in the early development ...

In the throes of a bloody drug war, a shrinking economy and an acute energy crisis, Ecuadorans are remarkably optimistic ...