Norfolk Southern rail merger could raise farm transportation costs, reduce competition, and threaten supply chain reliability for U.S. agriculture.

The USS Nimitz is retiring this year, at the venerable age of 51. Here are 10 memorable pieces of history from her past five ...

Surface Transportation Board (STB) nominee and Republican Richard Kloster received a favorable vote from the Senate Commerce Committee March 12 to fill one of two vacant seats on the five-member Board ...

Following recent conversations about re-structuring Amtrak, this explainer provides a brief overview of railroad management ...

Iran named the hard-line Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his late father as supreme leader on Monday, signaling no ...

Let’s be clear about one thing: the true driver of the Earth’s climate is the world’s ocean system. They control long-term temperature.

When brothers Steuart and Tom Walton built a 142-room hotel on the Bentonville square last year, they named it The Compton.

Betty Kennedy was born July 19, 1930. She’s now 95 and lives in Westminster West. Every Monday evening she joins her 60 ...

Red kites, great spotted woodpeckers and pink-footed geese — these are only a few of the success stories, writes Mark Cocker.

Although the US Navy has 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in active service, only around half are deployed at any given time—with the rest in port or undergoing maintenance.

The America’s Cup, the oldest trophy in international sports and yachting’s most coveted prize, is all but destroyed by a Maori protester who struck it repeatedly with a sledgehammer in Auckland, New ...

Born at the former Locust Mountain Hospital she was the daughter of the late Cyril and Rita (Idason) Kurfovich. She was a 1967 graduate of Mahanoy Area High School and retired from J.E. Morgan ...