Metal boxes commonly used to sell newspapers are being turned into emergency anti-overdose stations stocked with naxolone and placed in U.S. neighborhoods.

Newspapers have been published in the United States for almost 300 years and are important tools in researching family trees because they are filled with historical and genealogical accounts of ...

For his new book, archivist Todd Andrlik tracked down 18th century newspapers to provide a sense of the Revolution as it actually unfolded. Andrlik says the newspapers preserve things that didn't ...

One Thursday morning, I found a post in the “free” section of Craigslist for a sizable collection of historic New Orleans newspapers. Months earlier, the very same collection had been for sale ...

Remember those old microfiche reader that we use to read “digitized” old newspapers in the library? Not so long ago, those were pretty cool machines and are the only way to preserve newspapers ...

Thursday, I got a call from a U-T TV producer arranging for an on-air debate over the respective merits of print newspapers and online editions. They were looking for an “old columnist,” she ...

She found the nearly 100-year-old newspapers underneath the floorboards as she renovated her 1850s Penniac home, about 18 kilometres north of Fredericton.

Whether you're a daily subscriber or occasional reader, old newspapers have a way of piling up. In honor of Earth Day, we've assembled a list of ways to make them go away. Whether you're looking ...

In 2012, Ruth Thurstan turned to an unconventional source to study fishing: old newspapers. She wanted to know when people had started catching substantial numbers of snapper (Pagrus auratus), a ...

New research has found that old newspaper provide a cheap and green solution for the bulk production of single walled carbon nanotubes.

Should newspapers let people apply to have old stories about themselves altered or hidden from search engines? (Bob Galbraith / Associated Press) ...