SPARTA, Mich. — The 70 acres off of Alpine Avenue is land that developer John Bitely has had his eye on for years. “This is an area that’s been master-planned for homes for over 17 years,” Bitely said ...

The Athletic is attending some of the most ferocious derbies across Europe, charting the history of the continent’s most deep-rooted and volatile rivalries. The series began last season, covering 10 ...

Nabis, the last king of Sparta, is often described as both a king and a tyrant, depending on the perspective and sources.

With some Western governments restricting weapons transfers to Israel, the country must adopt a “super Sparta” mentality in the face of increasing isolation, summoning the famed self-reliance and ...

With a tornado bearing down on the small Missouri town of Sparta, the lone warning siren stayed silent because a downed tree kept the mayor from getting downtown to flip the switch that activates it.

Ancient Sparta’s influence is all around us, providing a litany of patron saints for spectacular last stands. There’s a word for this mania in Western cultures: laconophilia, taken from Laconia, the ...

Sparta spent nearly three centuries as the preeminent military power in Ancient Greece. It rose to dominate the Peloponnese, Greece’s large southern peninsula, and led an alliance of city-states to ...

I was born in Chicago and raised in its suburbs. I've lived in Missouri 12 years but have only been an Ozarker? — Ozarkian? — Ozarkanian? — two and a half years. So I'm not really sure what "true ...

Sparta is getting the largest supermarket it has ever had, and it happens to be its first-ever ShopRite, too. Construction is underway at 18 North Village Blvd., and a grand opening is set for Oct. 23 ...