Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 18—Tracy Compton has served as mayor of Elkmont for 26 years and has lived in Elkmont his entire life, finding his sense of ...

A modern-day gold rush boom was on full display at Calico California Days, a kitschy celebration of early settlements held at Calico Ghost Town, the legendary San Bernardino County mining hub that ...

The abandoned town of Marfa in Texas surrounded by a desert landscape - Jjay69/Shutterstock One such almost-empty town is Segovia. Located about 100 miles north of San Antonio (an iconic Texan city ...

The electric bass guitar played on The Specials' era defining 1981 hit Ghost Town is being auctioned and expected to sell for £20,000. The song was written by the Coventry-based band's founder, Jerry ...

As he headed to a construction job in Atlantic City with his cousin on a cold Friday in December, Rene Dominguez Facundo had plenty of reasons to want to get back home to Bridgeton as soon as possible ...

AN eerie “ghost village” hidden deep in a valley stands as a chilling reminder of when an entire community was forced from their homes. The hillside town was abandoned after officials warned that a ...

After an exhilarating fortnight of action in Milan Cortina, the Winter Olympics come to a close this weekend. For Team GB, it's been a very fruitful trip to Italy indeed. With three gold medals won by ...

In its heyday, Jefferson, Texas, was a major port on the Big Cypress Bayou. Steamboats carried travelers and goods from Shreveport and New Orleans. After the water level dropped and the steamboats ...

A planning deadlock has left a Cornish village saddled with 33 derelict new-build properties - and residents are fuming. The housing development was shuttered after the Devon-based builder's expenses ...

PANAMA CITY — The News Herald has been digging into a unique legacy of Bay County history: ghost towns. While "ghost town" might be an oversimplification, these are communities in the county that once ...

Forty-five miles southeast of Tucson on the east slope of the Santa Rita Mountains are the Greaterville gold placers, discovered by A. Smith in 1874. The deposit, at 5,280-feet elevation, became the ...