A central North Carolina local school board member was sentenced to active prison time after being convicted of extortion and ...

Seeing unimaginable destruction and suffering is hard. And for some, Los Angeles is home. Here 12 photographers, each selecting a picture they ... of the tragedy of Pompeii. The volcanic eruption ...

New frescoes were discovered in the ancient city of Pompeii, providing insights into ... Frescoes of notable quality were discovered there, including images of a Nereid riding a hippocampus ...

Told through the drama of the dig and stylised, fresco-inspired animations, House of Treasures continues to paint a vivid picture of what life was like in Pompeii, as well as the horror faced by ...

When the residents of Pompeii died in a shower of hot ash and rocks erupting from Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the volcanic material enveloped them and their vibrant city in a pyroclastic shroud.

After lying hidden beneath metres of volcanic rock and ash for 2,000 years, a "once-in-a-century" find has been unearthed in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in Italy. Archaeologists have ...

The dramatic level of destruction in some places was evident in a comparison of satellite images taken before and after the fire. A swath of about 250 homes in an Altadena neighborhood ...

This story has been updated with additional reporting and images. Multiple wildfires fueled ... and aerial imagery reveals the amount of destruction the fast-moving fires have caused in the ...

Satellite and aerial images provided to Business Insider by Maxar Technologies and Nearmap show the trail of destruction the fires have left in Altadena, Pasadena, Malibu, and Pacific Palisades ...