11+ hour ago  (1049+ words) Reading: Remembering "The Pit" The fire that destroyed Dawson City"s historic Westminster Hotel erased more than a landmark Dawson City, a gold rush town along the Yukon River, has lost a beloved community emblem. On Sunday, May 17, the Westminster…...

12+ hour, 16+ min ago  (330+ words) City Offices Closing in Observance of Juneteenth Holiday June 19 Rutherford Source In observance of Juneteenth, a holiday celebrating the emancipation of enslaved persons in the United States, City Hall and most City offices and recreational facilities will be closed Friday,…...

9+ hour, 28+ min ago  (442+ words) When the "three lucky Swedes" discovered gold at Anvil Creek in the Bering Strait region in September of 1898, they touched off a frenzy that transformed a once-peaceful corner of Alaska. More than a century later, a patchwork of lingering mining…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (497+ words) Mining communities in places like Northumberland and Durham have a new opportunity to explore their heritage online though a new free digital archive dating back hundreds of years. Described by the Mining Remediation Authority (MRA) as a major'milestone'in the preservation…...

19+ hour, 34+ min ago  (133+ words) A MINING town once named a neighbourhood after a small Cumbrian community. Cleator Moor's surprising connection to Leadville, Colorado, will be explored in a special talk by professor James Walsh of the University of Denver on July 4. Professor Walsh's research…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (548+ words) A collection of 22, 000-year-old jewelry discovered in northern Spain is offering new insights into how Ice Age hunter-gatherers expressed identity, exchanged ideas, and maintained social networks across vast distances. Researchers found that people living in and around Llon'n Cave used…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (752+ words) Subscribe for $100 to receive six beautiful issues per year. This is a story of a dispossessed group that is making the most of a rare and remarkable set of circumstances to generate wealth through upzoning. But it is also a…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (511+ words) The 60-county region as defined by the ARC's original Central Appalachia designation entered 2025 with an estimated combined population of just over 1. 8 million, down from its 2020 census baseline. That roughly 49, 000-person reduction in five years is nearly as large as the…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (1534+ words) Hundreds of millions of people who are alive today would be dead without the help of Americans. How could this be? Is this extremely unique 250-year period of world history just a fluke? Has it been the result of the…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (42+ words) Greensboro News and Record Javascript is required to use this website. This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window....