When most Americans imagine a home, they picture a wood-framed house. But in an era of high housing costs and extreme weather ...

Wood is relatively affordable and readily available, offering a cost-effective solution for homebuilding. Contractors are familiar with wood construction techniques. In addition, building codes and ...

In 1891 in New Orleans, 11 of 19 Italian immigrants acquitted in the fatal shooting of the city’s police chief were herded by a mob and hanged in what historians describe as one of the worst ...

Far from the southern border, the Massachusetts' immigrant community lives in fear of ICE, and high school students are leading a local resistance.

Perched above the Mediterranean on the Côte d’Azur, medieval Hyères was once home to a who’s who of Modernists, and inspires ...

The five newest National Recreation Trails in six states add nearly 400 miles to the network of more than 1,300 trails.

An amateur historian posited children had been buried in "a sewage tank." A government commission investigated her claims.

In the mid-20th century, Archer Rubber was a major employer. Now, it’s the health care and biotechnology industry throughout Greater Boston.

The 95-year-old Veterans Memorial Bridge, a reinforced-concrete arched bridge, is considered an engineering landmark by the Pennsylvania section of the American Society of Civil Engineers as a classic ...

Massachusetts might evoke liberal coastal elites, like the ones at Harvard that Trump is attacking with every weapon he can find. But Milford is 30 miles and a world away from the Ivy League campus.