Nestled in California's Sierra Nevada mountains is a former mining town with an unusual name and past that will pique any ...

Mining towns often sprang up overnight across the U.S. during the gold, silver and even copper rushes, creating dramatic tales of fortune, greed, sudden ruin, sickness and even death.

As US President Donald Trump loosens cryptocurrency rules, one community reports that noise and pollution from a local ...

Communities across Michigan have names that reflect the state's Italian American heritage. Here's what to know.

Ohio's ODNR and local groups start a $2.8 million project to revitalize Glouster, turning it into a business and recreation ...

Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called "the wickedest town in the West" because of its proliferation of bars, ...

US border towns crushed by Canadian boycott over Trump’s trade war: report By . Taylor Herzlich. Published May 5, 2025, ... “It’s like a mining town,” she told Bloomberg.

Head further north, all the way to Alaska, to see another pristine example of life in a 20th-century North American mining town (though Alaska didn’t become an official U.S. state until 1959).

Just strolling through this ski town’s main street is an eye-candy treat. Old and new blend in perfect harmony in Colorado’s largest historic district. Nineteenth century building have many stories to ...

What makes “The Wickedest Town in the West” so fascinating is that its ghostly legends have earned Jerome a reputation as a hotspot for paranormal activity. Originally the United Verde Hospital built ...

Small mining towns flourished at the start of the 1900s. Up until the 1930s, horse-drawn carriages and automobiles could still be seen on the same streets. Today, many of these towns lean on their ...

They come from the chain of coal mining towns that line this east-west highway. The E-50 connects Dnipro, Ukraine's fourth-largest city, ... "This is terrible coal, they gave us awful coal.