FILE PHOTO: The city skyline is reflected in a pool left on the dry riverbed of the receding Jialing river, a tributary of the Yangtze, that is approaching record-low water levels during a regional ...

A blackout has hit the western half of Cuba, including Havana, leaving millions of people without power on an island ...

URUMQI, China—About a decade ago, some Western companies answered Beijing’s calls to invest in Xinjiang, an underdeveloped ...

Just because we’re far removed from the rain-starved months of summer, it doesn’t mean that officials have relaxed their vigilance of the state’s water resources. This week Energy and ...

Not long ago, the story of western China was told in the rattle of green-hulled trains carrying young men and women eastward. They left behind the aged and children in villages in search of factory ...

The U.S. government is refusing to disclose whether a controversial federal jail in San Diego will shutter in March — or if a private prison company will use an unconventional workaround to keep it ...

We are six weeks away from a deadline that will redefine the future of a controversial San Diego federal jail. But what exactly will happen when the deadline passes remains a mystery to the public.

A man carries a calf through flood waters in Assam’s Dibrugarh district, India, July 2024. Credit: Pronib Das Alarm bells are ringing for the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) with yet another study ...

Ukrainian forces attack a second border region in western Russia, where the governor declares a state of emergency. Ukraine also targets air bases in at least a half-dozen regions. Ukrainian forces ...

In an era where loud rhetoric often overshadows real results, Western Regional Minister Joseph Nelson is quietly rewriting the leadership playbook in Ghana’s resource-rich Western Region. Since his ...

The British government granted self-governing status to the old Western Region on August 8, 1957. Prior to that day, with the election of 1951, the Action Group, under the leadership of Chief Obafemi ...

India’s western and southern regions contributed around 54 percent to the total deposits of the country of schedule ...