LAUCHHAMMER, Germany — Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification that followed, more Germans are returning home to the East. Now, small towns in the former Communist ...

In six years, the use of oil in West Germany had jumped 421%. Bonn imposed stiff excise taxes on fuel oil some time ago, and persuaded coal companies to close 37 mines and 122 coalpits by offering ...

GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany—For 20 years, Stefan Diete, a lab chemist at an oil refinery in this western Germany town, was a member of a far-left party with Communist roots. In next month’s ...

When he first came from his home town of Valtero, in northern Greece, Miltiades Vlachos seemed just another one of the horde of foreign workers who have gone to work in West Germany's booming ...

A town in eastern Germany is offering two weeks free accommodation to encourage people to relocate there in a bid to boost its population. Eisenhüttenstadt, which sits on the border with Poland ...

Then it was back into the West, from Berlin across the northern plains to the weathered red brick and green copper church spires of Lübeck, queen of the Hanseatic league cities and, since 2007 ...

Mr. Merz also comes to the town every several weeks, usually on a Sunday, to drink coffee with his parents, who, at 97 and 101, recently moved into a senior home, residents say.

Others are considered to be 'twin towns' usually in Europe where partnerships to promote culture and business ties are made. We've rounded up the cities and towns in the West Midlands which have ...

The town of Lobo in West Texas has been a ghost town since 1991, but many original structures remain, including a grocery store, gas station, motel and a few uninhabited homes. Pictured is the ...

A shrinking population and the tendency for people to move into big cities in western Germany has emptied out thousands of homes in small towns in the eastern region. Updated - November 17, 2011 ...

Ahead of Sunday's vote, senior women in Germany's east are reaching out to supporters of the far-right Alternative for Germany to try to change minds. They say they receive some support — and abuse.