MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — Could Manatee County fire departments be consolidating? That was the talk during one commissioner's meeting after a volunteer fire department requested more resources.

There’s something inherently joyful about polka dots—a welcome antidote to the minimalism that has dominated in recent years. Still, for those who lean toward a more understated aesthetic, there’s a ...

I have friends I want to see. I have family I want to see. Frendy lives a peaceful life with her beloved dog Jazz. One day, in front of a flower shop, she spots a dog that looks just like Polka, the ...

The virtuosic rock duo from Quebec releases its second album, “Vol. II,” this week. By Jon Pareles See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los resultados ...

A new generation of kids on Prince Edward Island will get a chance to peep through the Polka Dot Door this summer. The Confederation Centre of the Arts is creating a new family musical based on the ...

NANTICOKE — John “Stanky” Stankovic, the legendary Northeast Pennsylvania polka king who entertained millions of people from around the world for decades, died on Christmas Day. He was 89. Stankovic, ...

We may love them now, but polka dots used to have a serious image problem. Before the Industrial Revolution brought about machines that could produce the pattern in a symmetrical and uniform way, any ...

He’s a pirate and he calls himself Jimi Jimi Jimi, the Polka Dancing Pirate. If there’s an Oktoberfest event at the Germanic-American Institute in St. Paul, a polka mass at St. Boniface Catholic ...

The Stanky brothers — Joe and John — have been fixtures on the local music scene for decades, so much so that their stage names are practically synonymous with polka music in Luzerne County. Born with ...

Kara Jillian Brown is the senior beauty editor of InStyle. She began her career at Well+Good, where she spent five years evolving from editorial intern to news writer to beauty writer. She earned a ...