Like Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s just-published “Lake Effect,” bestselling writer Tom Perrotta’s “Ghost Town” is about life in the suburbs in the 1970s. Sweeney’s book was set near Rochester, N.Y., but ...

Cambria County Conservation and Recreation Authority Executive Director Cliff Kitner talks about completing the final segment of the Ghost Town Trail’s C&I Extension during a ribbon cutting event ...

In the U.S., eerie remnants of once-inhabited towns or villages exist in the form of "ghost towns," left in forgotten corners of the country. Nearly every U.S. state has some sort of ghost town, ...

Jeff, Lena, Brianna, Elsie and Maisie Gregg pose for a family picture outside their house. The Gregg family are now raising the eighth generation of farmers with nearly two centuries of farming legacy ...

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High in the Inyo Mountains sits a ghost town where the past feels anything but quiet. Weather-beaten buildings cling to the mountainside like they’re guarding secrets too dark to fade with time. Empty ...

SHANIKO Ore. (KPTV) - The City of Shaniko has agreed to sell the historic Old City Hall building to a local steward to stabilize the town’s finances amid “a period of fiscal turbulence,” the City ...

CERRO GORDO, N.C. (WECT) - While the investigation into the death of a North Carolina State Highway Patrol trooper killed in an on-duty crash continues, those who knew him are sharing memories of his ...

A modern-day gold rush boom was on full display at Calico California Days, a kitschy celebration of early settlements held at Calico Ghost Town, the legendary San Bernardino County mining hub that ...

Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear in "Ghost Town", 2008.Paramount / Everett Collection David Koepp may be best known as a successful screenwriter, the guy behind numerous Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones ...

A middle-aged man makes peace with his childhood trauma in Perrotta’s stellar latest (after Tracy Flick Can’t Win). Accomplished novelist Jimmy Perrini looks back on his youth in bucolic Creamwood, ...