ERKELENZ, Germany >> Police on Wednesday entered a condemned village in western Germany, launching an effort to evict activists holed up at the site in an effort to prevent its demolition to make way ...

The German village of Fuggerei has not raised rent for more than 500 years, enabling residents to live there for $1 a year. Established in 1521, the Fuggerei, which is not a village per se but rather ...

(Bloomberg) -- The protest started cheerfully enough on Wednesday, with music blaring and flags flying even under the driving rain. Then the police arrived, decked out in riot gear and backed by ...

Several hundred climate activists on Tuesday were trying to block the entry of heavy machinery into an abandoned village in Germany which is due to be cleared for the expansion of a coal mine after a ...

For years, activists tried to save tiny Lützerath from being razed to make way for the expansion of an open-pit coal mine. This past week, the police moved them out. By Christopher F. Schuetze ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Residents in German Village are coming together to protect the neighborhood’s historic streets and buildings, speaking out against a city proposal they say would change the ...

An outdated law allows coal companies to take private land for lignite mining that is in the “public interest,” even after the country’s highest court ruled that the government must reduce emissions.

The Columbus City Council will soon weigh in on a fight between city officials and the German Village Society over how to balance accessibility, expense and historic preservation when installing curb ...

Climate activists pledged Sunday to defend a tiny village in western Germany from being bulldozed for the expansion of a nearby coal mine that has become a battleground between the government and ...

German Village remained a working-class neighborhood throughout much of the mid-20th century. Throughout the years of World War II, the city suffered from deferred maintenance because of the war ...

Alpine Village, a Bavarian-themed commercial complex near Torrance that for decades was the heart of the region’s German American community, has been sold and faces the specter of shuttering, ...