After years of debate, litigation and regulatory hurdles, recent state and county decisions have allowed the Rail Tie Wind ...

The organizers of HWB Bridges Road Community Garden, at 229 Bridges Road in Williamstown, are betting that gardening can create community. As co-organizer Carrie Greene describes the way things have ...

In honor of the 250th anniversary of the founding of our country this year, the StarNews has been covering events across the region. Our coverage of the N.C. First in Freedom Festival in February ...

My cousin William “Bill” Beauclair, known by some as Jim, died in December, and we recently gathered to bid him farewell at a funeral home in Bismarck. My memories of Bill, third child of five in the ...

The Rockford City Council recently renewed a contact with Flock Safety to continue surveillance of traffic across the community. Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs) have been used in the U.S. for ...

My family recently hosted a 13-year-old student from Japan through an exchange program run by the Austin-Oita Sister City Committee. Oita has been a sister city with Austin for 35 years, and the ties ...

A mother shares her family's struggle with accessing affordable medication for her daughter's severe hemophilia A. Insurance policies, like copay accumulators, can create financial barriers for ...

In 1962, Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color introduced children across the United States to Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the episode, Donald Duck and the ...

The times are strange. Tension is palpable. But in this chaotic era of partisanship and division, there's one thing that continues to unite all of us Floridians: We fight like hell to protect what ...

The reaction comes after developers proposed a cruise ship facility near the Sunshine Skyway in Manatee County. Anyone can view a sampling of recent comments, but you must be a Times subscriber to ...