Leavenworth, Washington, is a mountain town outside Seattle that's inspired by Bavaria, Germany. Its food and architecture ...

As a young backpacker, I first fell in love with the picturesque village of Rothenburg, in Germany’s Franconian heartland. At that time, the town still fed a few farm animals within its medieval walls ...

Rochester, N.Y. — A police scuba team recovered a body from the Genesee River downtown Wednesday afternoon. Police responded to the river near the Andrews Street Bridge around 1:45 p.m. for a ...

Speaking during a news conference, Merz laid out a vision of a Germany restored to its former strength and reliability. “The future government, the future coalition, will reform and invest to ...

Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Hannes P Albert In their new coalition pact unveiled on Wednesday, Germany's CDU/CSU and SPD say they will end the three-year track for citizenship applicants with ...

A new poll shows the Alternative für Deutschland is now Germany’s most popular political party, marking another turning point for the right-wing group’s rise. The anti-immigration ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz’s conservatives and the leaders of Germany’s center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) reached a swift coalition agreement on Wednesday. The deal came amid intense pressure on ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin Police said a 16-year-old was arrested after a deadly shooting in downtown Austin on Monday night, the Austin Police Department said. The incident happened near the ...

By Christopher F. Schuetze Reporting from Berlin Germany’s centrist parties announced on Wednesday that they had formally reached a coalition agreement to allow Friedrich Merz, a conservative ...

The deal caps weeks of haggling between chancellor-in-waiting Merz and the SPD after he topped elections in February but fell well short of a majority, with the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

But big ambitions and deep pockets alone cannot guarantee success. For Germany's transformation to truly take off, it needs speed and a huge pool of talented workforce. The €500 billion stimulus ...

City council in Sault Ste. Marie has voted to dissolve the downtown business group and have it run by the city. Last fall, councillors passed a motion to have a closer look at the downtown group ...