Activists who cut their teeth fighting data center projects in their towns are now riding a wave of AI tech pushback to seek office in local elections.

Cities looking to breathe life back into their streets are eyeing policies to reenergize local nightlife and bring back outdoor dining.

Rosa Pelham lives in a castle in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, built by her late husband to woo her during their courtship, a story rooted in local legend. Still in her early thirties, her lavish l...

With little in the way of organization or themes, George Lucas’s new museum of graphic illustration in Los Angeles leaves it to the public to decide what it all means.

Temporary dining sheds that emerged during the pandemic became valuable extra real estate for restaurants facing brutal margins. Now they must survive another challenge: bureaucracy.

Three restored beach pavilions, all artifacts of the Robert Moses era, offer modern takes on the New Deal promise of accessible leisure.

A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement.

Sidewalk sheds are ubiquitous in NYC. New designs and reformed rules are the latest attempt to minimize their blight, while keeping pedestrians safe.

Waterfront Park was a popular destination over the past month, especially on July 6. (Michael Smith) Over the past four weeks, Seattle hosted six World Cup matches featuring teams from eight differ…

"The repercussions of Google's pivot to AI will be vast and horrid."

Louisa Gag, 36, "was a dedicated public servant to the City of Boston and passionately advocated for safer streets,” her sister said.

Amazon and Google report jumps in their greenhouse gas output as the data center boom gains momentum.

Just as with the bicentennial in 1976, official events for the 250th anniversary of the US can’t measure up to locally organized exhibits, parades and commemorations.

Designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, the playground at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago will be one of its most accessible features.

Kansas City was the first major US city to make buses free. Six years later, as World Cup revelers arrived, it ended the fare-free program.

The Trump administration wants 400 dealmakers to help the US bolster its national security supply chains — and it’s offering salaries as high as $400,000 a year for Wall Street recruits.

Tremont, Pennsylvania, is unprepared, underequipped and largely unwilling to accept an 8,500-bed immigrant detention center. That might not matter.

As currently drafted, BUILD America 250 would likely reinforce the United States’ car dependence, depriving Americans of affordable travel options and degrad…

Community health workers fill the gaps in places without enough doctors and nurses. Trump’s budget cuts are costing them their jobs, putting untold clients at risk.

Community health workers fill the gaps in places without enough doctors and nurses. Trump’s budget cuts are costing them their jobs, putting untold clients at risk.

Still underway in Barcelona after more than 140 years, Antoni Gaudí’s vision for an otherworldly church was only made possible by modern construction methods.

Aiming for a merger of celebrity and community, the monolithic tower stands as a contradictory, even off-putting symbol of Barack Obama’s presidency.

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Surveyed US architecture firms say that building retrofits account for more than half of their billings.

The city-run fleet of ferryboats is seeing a surge of riders — and social media fame — as it tries to navigate New York’s challenging transit landscape.

Also today: A Brutalist housing relic is reborn, and drought spurs a new generation of dams.

Long-vacant factories and polluted former manufacturing sites on the city’s East Side are the focus of a redevelopment initiative that aims to lure new companies.