CLEVELAND, Ohio — The City of Cleveland is teaming up with Rust Belt Riders to make it easier for residents to reduce the amount of waste that ends up in the city landfill. On Wednesday, the City of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SYRACUSE — Sequoia Kemp stood at the crossroads of health inequality, her mind on a painful past. Beside her: the second-oldest ...

For decades, the story of the Rust Belt was one of departure. Young people left. Factories closed. Cities hollowed out. Yet ...

Steubenville is outpacing districts with similar poverty levels — not to mention most Ohio districts period — when it comes to the reading scores of their third graders. Schools in impoverished areas ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smoke rises from the U.S. Steel Corp.'s factory by the Gary Metro Center tracks in Gary, Indiana, on Oct. 31. To the right is City ...

“Pittsburg is ugly,” said no one ever. In fact, USA Today once called it, “America’s most beautiful city.” My flight attendant sister corroborates that claim: “Seriously one of the most underrated ...

A new environmental justice battle is forming that ties together the future of sustainability, plastics and business in Erie. A proposed plastics recovery facility is planned for an empty industrial ...

A small Rust Belt city beat well-known sunny spots in Florida and the Carolinas to be crowned one of the top places to retire in the US. Weirton, West Virginia, is a modest steel-town metro that many ...

Houses are more expensive than ever. Matt Shorraw is giving them away for free. Mr. Shorraw is the mayor of Monessen, Pa., a small city set in a curve of the Monongahela River, which has hundreds of ...