A young dog was found abandoned near a busy stretch of highway with a heartbreaking note written on a scrap of cardboard. Brownie was left with a piece of cardboard, on which her previous owner had ...

In 1963, Illinois naturalist May Watts, inspired by walking paths she’d seen in Britain, wrote a letter to the editor of the Chicago Tribune, suggesting converting a stretch of abandoned railroad into ...

I’ve often thought the seven-year battle played out between the city of San Jose and a group of community advocates over an abandoned railroad trestle would make for a great public-policy case study ...

The story of a 60-year struggle to convert abandoned railroads into trails for cycling and walking. Edward Norton narrates the story of one of the most unlikely social movements in American history: ...

In 1940, drivers lined up for hours to be the first to drive on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, which opened at midnight on Oct. 1, 1940. Journalists at the time called the Turnpike a “dream highway” and ...

Police are looking to get in touch with anyone who may have witnessed a dog being abandoned in Manchester on Saturday. Manchester Animal Control said a dog was left in the heat, inside a crate at ...

East Harlem leaders and community advocates are calling for a passageway between the neighborhood’s incoming Second Avenue subway extension and its Metro-North stop by repurposing a long abandoned ...

Abandoned Man (now on Netflix) is a Turkish melodrama that opens with a dedication: “For children with wounded souls and repairers,” it reads, with a typically sloppy Netflix translation. Don’t worry, ...

MANCHESTER, N.Y. — A brush fire broke out behind the abandoned railroad roundhouse in Manchester, Ontario County, Monday afternoon. The roundhouse is the village’s most prominent historical building.

The home at 17 Havens Road in Wantage is linked to the Sussex Railroad, which transported iron ore and dairy and other agricultural products from local industries. The home features original details ...