Deep in the heart of Washington and Greene counties, Pennsylvania, the roar of motocross engines has long symbolized local pride and high-octane passion. Generations have gathered at dirt tracks and ...

The Rust Belt, the postindustrial midwest, flyover country. Are these terms—which describe the area roughly from Wisconsin to Buffalo, New York—useful anymore? Were they ever? Every four years, the ...

Author and editor Sherrie Flick's new book is "Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist." Sherrie Flick has long lived on the South Side Slopes, about 30 miles from where she grew up, in Beaver Falls, ...

Simon Stone’s remarkable new production of Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor,” which opened at the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday, updates the opera to a dying American Rust Belt community in the ...

ERIE, Pennsylvania -- They died at the supermarket. A week before Easter, a trio of 30-somethings parked at an Erie, Pennsylvania, grocery, ingested heroin, and overdosed. For the next 12 to 18 hours, ...