Reconstruction

Following a recent streets committee meeting, Libertyville officials voted for an alternate $932,000 plan for the Dymond Road reconstruction, saving the village about $45,000. The …...

Des Plaines officials say construction on the northern end of River Road has been pushed back because the Illinois Department of Transportation can't pay for …...

For years, the residents of Hunter Road in Glenview have lived with drivers using the street as a link between Glenview Road and Lake Avenue. …...

Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl talk about their work on recovery efforts in Haiti with Los Angeles Times' reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske. Farmer and Dahl are in L.A. to attend the "Haiti Stories" conference at UCLA on Saturday....

The $932,000 Dymond Road reconstruction program will likely make more headway this week as excavators are scheduled to remove trees and vegetation along the road …...

Several hundred people rallied in downtown Beirut on Monday in a show of solidarity with the displaced residents of Nahr el Bared, the Palestinian refugee camp that was destroyed in spring 2007 when fighting broke out between Fatah Al-Islam militants........

You could call it the skeleton in the Page Museum's closet. For years, the George C. Page Museum in Los Angeles has housed a 9,000-year-old set of bones that is said to be the only human remains recovered from the......

An Afghan girl featured on the Aug. 9 cover of Time magazine after her nose was cut off met with Southland doctors this week in preparation for treatment. The 18-year-old, identified only as Bibi Aisha (Miss Aisha), told Time that......

Angelina Jolie's news that she elected to have both breasts removed to reduce her chances of developing breast cancer has put a celebrity spotlight on a decision more women are facing. Advances in genetic testing and a better understanding of the BRCA...

CHICAGO (AP) — Treating breast cancer almost always involves surgery, and for years the choice was just having the lump or the whole breast removed. Now, new approaches are dramatically changing the way these operations are done, giving women more...

BOYNE CITY -- A recent letter from the Michigan Department of Transportation to local governments asks them to spend up all unused federal transportation money by the end of this fiscal year or risk losing it, rather than saving a portion for future years...

The hit to Florida's $500 billion economy from Hurricane Charley will soar into the tens of billions of dollars but the negative effects will be offset by nearly as much in spending on reconstruction, economists said Tuesday. "For Hurricane Charley, I...