States in the South and Midwest lead the nation in homebuilding and affordability, according to a new national housing report card grading each state’s response to the housing crisis.

After a failed experiment with decriminalization, Oregon’s liberal stronghold tries to chart a path out of the fentanyl ...

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...

The Webb Space Telescope picked up traces of dimethyl sulfide on planet K2-18b. On Earth, the molecule comes from microbes ...

The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that due to uncertainty over Trump’s plans, the global economy will grow just ...

Geo Group has spent the past decade building out a suite of digital tools to surveil immigrants on behalf of the U.S.

But to get a better view, you have to go back to the 1930s. The term redlining has its roots ... With the help of real estate ...

Students and interns with permits to reside in the country denounce being victims of a massive cancellation of residence and work permits without justified cause. "The reason for the cancellation is ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or fewer and are subject to editing for grammar and clarity. Publication is at ...

At some point between February and early March, as seasonal wind and rain hammered New England coasts, a relatively new but ...