BusinessWeek just released its annual Best Places to Raise Your Kids list. Each year the publication works with OnBoard Informatics, a provider of real estate analysis, to determine the winner and two runners up in each of the 50 states. Selection is based on a number of criteria, the most weight given to affordability, safety and school test scores.

Asthma triggers are everywhere and some cities are more apt to be challenging for asthma sufferers to live. St. Louis, Missouri has been named the top Asthma Capital 2009 in the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America's annual ranking of the 100 most challenging places to live with asthma.

Have you ever wondered if there is such a thing as the most honest and trusted town in U.S.? CBS correspondent Steve Hartman writes that Lakeside in Ohio may be the case. Lakeside is a place where people trust each other and you can see a sign like "I found a $20 dollar bill, you can claim it at..."

Travel and Leisure magazine reports that it is adding five new cities to its survey of America's Favorite Cities of 2009 and that the survey will close on May 18. Travel and Leisure says this is your last chance to vote.

In the struggling economy, the real estate market has taken a huge hit. Home values and sales are down. But have you ever considered purchasing a town? Now you can purchase one: an Albert, TX Town, specifically, is for sale. You read this correctly, you can now own Albert, TX for the reduced price of $883,000.

New Orleans was the fastest-growing large city in America last year, but its population is still about half what it was before Hurricane Katrina, the US Census Bureau reported.

A U.S. city files for bankruptcy protection. Is it even imaginable that a city in one of the richest country in the world would file for bankruptcy protection? That's the case with the City of Vallejo in California. Here is what Vallejo released on its website.

American Heart association has released the rankings of the most heart friendly cities in USA, where Nashville in TN is on the top of the list as the least heart friendly city in America for women. Minneapolis tops the heart healthy city rankings as the most Heart Friendly City for Women.

Chicago is a big-time sports town with die hard fans for their Bears, Bulls, Cubs, and the World Champion Chicago White Sox. Even if you don’t like baseball, you’ll have the time of your life just like Ferris Bueller as you take in a Cubs game at Wrigley.

Many people are looking forward to see the July 4th firework shows across USA. Some of the most watched fireworks are Macy’s Fireworks, Boston Fireworks, Washington D.C. Fireworks, New York, Houston, Philadelphia, Nashville, Baltimore, San Francisco, Austin and Pittsburgh fireworks.

A new study by researchers at the Center for Mass Destruction Defense (CMADD) at the University of Georgia details the catastrophic impact a nuclear attack would have on American cities.