This remote Arctic region holds 10% of Russia’s gold reserves, along with oil, gas, and other valuable resources — yet it has become one of the bleakest places in the country. Once built up by Soviet ...
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California’s trains to nowhere

Readers may be familiar with the humiliating saga of California’s bullet train project, which was successfully sold in 2008 as a project to connect Los Angeles and San Francisco via high-speed rail.
It’s known as the “Czech Capital of Kansas” and a mecca of water sports in the state.
Obscure Flatrock Mountain off Route 28, four miles outside Old Forge, offers a 2.4 lollipop loop to the summit.
On Tuesday, will Jeroen Weimar – once Victoria’s COVID-19 response commander – and former Richmond Football Club president Peggy O’Neal pause and wonder what might have been? It should have been the ...
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Oscar weekend

Another Friday the 13th March 13 — Our apologies to everybody who left the house without a jacket yesterday. As several of you, including a real-life former TV weatherman, pointed out, our forecast of ...
One of my favorite authors, like many, Murakami once said, “I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.” So ...
On a historical impact per square mile basis, few places on earth rival the island of Tinian. Almost completely forgotten ...
A corn spill along a railway in northern Minnesota has lured more than 100 deer to their deaths, according to residents in the area.
BNSF and Patriot Rail run trains through Durant Canyon near Butte, and the railroads' concerns about liability currently block public access to the canyon via the Silver Bow Creek Greenway.
Cities and states are filing lawsuits and scrambling for alternative sources of money as the Trump administration seeks to shut off the federal funding spigot for biking and walking trails.
North Aurora Road between Aurora and Naperville is to close for four months starting March 31 for CN railroad bridge replacement.