With suitcases in hand and pets in tow, thousands of residents fled northern Orange County as a massive evacuation zone swallowed entire neighborhoods surrounding a contaminated industrial site in ...

Across Japan, something unusual is happening in plain sight. Entire neighbourhoods have houses that still stand, but nobody lives inside them anymore. Windows stay closed for years. Gardens grow wild, ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Residents and visitors in Atlanta are no strangers to the invasion of driverless cars in the city. Waymo has been operating in Atlanta for the better part of a year, slowly expanding the range of its ...

“It’s almost every little cul-de-sac in our area, so I think it’s a problem,” one neighbor, on Battleview Drive, told Gehlbach. On a dead end street, Waymo after Waymo after Waymo drive on, usually ...

Oil shipments from Iran's main export terminal appear to have come to a standstill over the past several days. European satellite imagery compiled by Bloomberg shows there were no ocean-going oil ...