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St. Croix Times Staff ST. Croix - The Virgin Islands Territorial Management Agency (VITEMA) in partnership with the Virgin Islands Fire...

St. Croix Times Staff       Osaka, Japan - Scientists and Engineers have designed a futuristic four-legged rideable robot horse that...

A.J. Pike       Hollywood - There have been few greater unfulfilled romances on the silver screen than the Whitney Houston-Kevin Costner...

A.J. Pike       Washington, D.C. - The Pew Research Center out of Washington, D.C. has released their estimates of the 2024 Black...

St. Croix Times Staff  USVI - The U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Tourism welcomes the nomination of Jennifer Matarangas-King to be the...

St. Croix Times Staff       St. Croix - A Green Sea Turtle which is considered “Threatened” due to human and natural impacts was apparently shot recently with a spear gun in a malicious manner by some brutal or careless individual.        The Sea Turtle Assistance and Rescue (STAR) team was contacted about a Sea Turtle in distress near the Frederiksted Pier in St. Croix. Divers sent photos to STAR’s Sea Turtle stranding hotline of a Green Turtle with a fishing spear through i

St. Croix Times Staff       St. Croix - Church’s Texas Chicken is set to open at the end of August 2025 in the space vacated by Pollo Tropical in the Sunny Isles Shopping Center. The franchise will be operated by Wenvi, D/B/A Wendy’s, a group headed by Dr. Peter Kumpitch, a longtime restaurateur in the Virgin Islands.        The Church’s brand is expected to open several other locations in the Virgin Islands in the near future.        “This exciting new venture marks a signif

St. Croix Times Staff       St. Croix - The University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) in partnership with the Growing, Research,...

John F. McKeon  Ice harvesting at Spy Pond, Arlington, Massachusetts, 1852, showing the railroad line in the background, used to...

M.A. Dworkin PHOTO CREDIT: Jeffrey Canton USVI - When you examine the type of people in the U.S. Virgin Islands, they generally fall into one of two categories: the ones that give back to their community and the ones that don’t give back. There’s really  nothing wrong with either type, but it’s the ones that continue to give back to their community that seem to have an extended run of good will heaped upon them. Such are the grand folks at Sterling Optical who have been servi

A.J. Pike Hollywood - Esteemed Journalist and TV Commentator Gayle King decided to take the high road after President Donald Trump made...

A.J. Pike Washington, D.C. - In a political battle that appears to have been going on for almost a decade and certainly has no end in...