Renovation

LITTLE EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Tom Paxton looked out over the start of a new dock being built at Great Bay Marina Sunday afternoon and vowed there would be a boating season after Hurricane Sandy. "The insurance and the government has been...

— A new Sandy Hook Elementary School building will be built at the site of the existing school, a task force of town leaders decided Friday night. The school, at a cost of almost $60 million, will take the place of the old building, where a mass...

The first troops showed up on a Saturday morning at the four-bedroom house in Columbia heavily armed: saws, hammers, crowbars, drills. They've returned three times since and are expected back again next week in hopes of making repairs upstairs and down,...

AMSTERDAM — A scrum of international TV reporters, photographers and other media packed the Gallery of Honor at the Rijksmuseum on a recent spring morning, while producers negotiated with publicists for time to shoot spots in front of Rembrandt's...

While I concur with John Dantice (“SOS: Save Our Sea,” April 30) that restoration of the Salton Sea is as vital to the long-term health of the region and its residents as was the Great Depression-era construction of the All-American Canal, the...

There were 11,256 bottles of wine in the cellar of Antoine's Restaurant on the morning of Aug. 29 when Hurricane Katrina struck, some of them rare, most of them expensive and all of them ruined when the power failed, the air conditioning died and the...

The food, a timeless presentation of French gourmet classics, is as savory as ever. The service is attentive and flawless. The dining rooms, freshly polished and filled with historical artifacts, promise a luxuriant meal. The veteran waiters are hard at...

DETROIT (AP) — The Dossin Great Lakes Museum is getting ready to reopen to the public this weekend following a five-month, $2 million renovation. The museum on Detroit's Belle Isle holds reopening events starting Saturday. A new core exhibit has...

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A task force of elected officials on Friday recommended tearing down the Connecticut elementary school where 20 first-graders and six educators were shot dead in December and rebuilding on the site. The group of 28 Newtown...

A sheet of paper with the words “Do not move” was taped to the U-shaped receptionist desk. A similar note was taped to a large white planter nearby that contained a pot of crusty old soil and dead plant material. A few yards away was a set...

Wedged between Lake Michigan and a small boat harbor in the far reaches of Jackson Park on the city's South Side, La Rabida Children's Hospital is all on its own, in more ways than one. The tiny, independent pediatric specialty hospital is known for...

Determining the future site of a new Sandy Hook Elementary School will take at least another week, and possibly longer, members of a 28-member task force said Friday night after being briefed on the trauma suffered by the school's staff. The briefing,...