BECKLEY — A decrepit old bridge thwarted plans to use in it this year’s Jamboree, but the historic Prince train depot figures to play a major role each summer when the Boy Scouts of America stages high adventure camps in Fayette County. Such was the consensus Tuesday of not only the Raleigh County Commission, but […]

America’s Biggest Companies Continue To Move Factories Offshore And Eliminate Thousands of American Jobs By Richard A. McCormack editor@manufacturingnews.com Despite a lot of talk and articles written about reshoring — bringing production back to the United States — offshore outsourcing of manufacturing and service-sector jobs to foreign nations continues to plague the American economy. Hundreds […]

Apple’s global manufacturing operation is the envy of the consumer tech industry, utilizing rigid quality assurance standards and exploiting advantages of scale to deliver precision-crafted products to markets across the world in a fast and efficient manner. It’s also been the subject of a great deal of scrutiny in recent years, as […]

A mummified head said to be that of a South Sea island chief is to be sent back to New Zealand after more than 150 years in the UK. The Maori head, or Toi moko, was brought to Britain in the 1840s and kept at Warrington Museum in Cheshire. The museum announced it was sending […]