All but one of the 100 cities with the world’s worst air pollution last year were in Asia, according to a new report, with the climate crisis playing a pivotal role in bad air quality that is ...

Residents of Maldives annually clean up beaches and the island of plastic bottles and other trash: around 280,000 plastic bottles are used and discarded daily in the capital city of Malé alone, ...

Craig Coyner’s descent onto the streets of Bend, Ore., came after decades spent fighting as a lawyer and politician for those on the edge of society. Craig Coyner joined the Bend City Council in ...

The rule of thumb is not to spend more than 30% of your total income on housing. The goal is to pay under 30%, but that may not be achievable in your destination city or town. If you find that the ...

If you’re launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor of entrepreneurship at Harvard Business ...

The city said that 14,000 temporary construction jobs, along with 2,000 permanent jobs, will be part of the new development. There will also be 5,000 to 6,000 new homes.

U.S. private equity firm RedBird Capital Partners said Friday that it has reached an in-principle agreement to acquire The Telegraph Media Group at a total enterprise valuation of £500 million ...

Washington could become a more dangerous city if the D.C. Council votes Tuesday, as currently planned, to override Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s veto of a bill that decreases punishments for violent ...

Four people hospitalized after being rescued from the rubble of a roof collapse at a popular nightclub in the Dominican Republic died overnight, raising the death toll to 225, health officials ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser about the capital city under President Trump and the planned renaming of Black Lives Matter Plaza.

“For Bangladesh, addressing environmental risks is both a development and an economic priority. We have seen around the world that when economic growth comes at the cost of the environment, it cannot ...

Local Crime & Public Safety Two Israeli Embassy staffers killed in shooting near Jewish Museum in D.C. Israeli officials named the victims as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim. Police said a ...