STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.—Victoria MacKenzie-Childs recently replaced the vintage stove in her kitchen with a new stainless-steel grill. “I was just ready for a change,” explains Victoria, whose ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island were open for visitors on Monday, with New York state picking up the tab for federal workers. The two sites have been ...

NEW YORK — Rock band Foreigner is celebrating their golden anniversary at the same destination millions of foreigners first came to when arriving in America. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers, known for ...

A wall of scaffolding is surrounding one of the nation’s most treasured national monuments this Fourth of July. The scaffolding surrounding part of Ellis Island is visible from Liberty State Park, a ...

A version of this story was originally published in 2019. When history professor Mark Washburne wanted to learn about his grandmother’s arrival in the United States as an infant, he went to Ellis ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Nov. 12, 1954, Ellis Island officially closed as an immigration station and detention center. More than 12 million ...

It was decades in the making, but the archive of personal stories and recollections of 1,700 people who immigrated to the United States via Ellis Island in the first half of the 20th century is ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5)—Legal proceedings are expected to continue after a judge dismissed several claims without prejudice in a lawsuit against F1 from businesses that claimed the race caused them ...

When we genealogists think of immigration through New York City, which was the gateway for millions of our American ancestors, we tend to envision the huge facility Ellis Island, now a museum and ...