Russ Lucas, manager of pre-owned sales for BMW, will become vice president of its eastern region with overall responsibility for sales, marketing, aftersales and dealer development activities in the 12-state northeast region.
The company began to expand there in the 1990s as the region's state-owned telecoms operators were privatised.
The Nature Conservancy is examining potential effects from gas drilling and wind turbines on an eight-state region from New York to Tennessee.
"Considering that over a third of America's transit riders use the systems most heavily damaged by Hurricane Sandy, it is imperative that we continue this rapid progress to restore these systems in the tri-state region, " Federal Transit Administration head Peter Rogoff said.
As the tri-state region gradually recovers and rebuilds from the disastrous effects of hurricane Sandy, one cannot help but pause for a minute to thank and appreciate all the public officials, volunteers, electric utility employees and guest crews who worked around the clock cleaning up neighborhoods.
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Of course, the United States will need to do much more to secure its interests, such as increasing its miniscule public diplomacy budget for the region, and invigorating state-to-state diplomacy to deny foreign states the opportunity to advance harmful agendas.
Meanwhile, a 2012 Gallup poll indicates the six-state New England region hosts the country's five least religious states (Connecticut is No. 11).
Ultimately, the region needs to find its own state-builders and create new states that reflect the will of their people.
Moscow region governor Andrei Vorobyev told Russian state-television that the fire alarm seems to have worked but the fire spread too quickly.
Romney is also taking his campaign downstate on Thursday, when he will rally with McDonnell in Portsmouth, a Navy town in the vote-rich Hampton Roads region along the state's southeastern coast.
It also comes on the eve of a trip to Europe by Bush's special envoy to Iraq -- former secretary of state James Baker -- who is being dispatched to the region to try to calm last week's diplomatic feud and to get those nations to forgive billions of dollars of Iraqi debt.
Private-housing prices in the city-state's core central region rose 0.6% in the second quarter, compared with a 0.6% fall in the January-April period.
Earlier in the day, conference tournament champion Oregon beat fifth-seeded Oklahoma State 68-55 in a second-round game in the Midwest Region.
Rather than bracing themselves for sale, takeover or closure, the bigger state-owned enterprises in the region are pinning their hopes on bail-outs.
So I helped work with local churches in the region to -- and public school officials to get state funding for dropout prevention programs, and brought together African American and Latino leaders to help set up after-school programs -- because when we help keep kids off the street, when we give them a productive way to spend their time, then graduation rates go up.
Cooperation by all levels of government - federal, state and municipal - is a crucial element necessary for long-term recovery in the region, said Amy Liu, deputy director of The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program.
Marvellous Maldon is getting a taste for country chic much to the delight of Melbournians looking for a weekend pit-stop in the state's Goldfields region.
Since falling out with Eritrea and the port-state of Djibouti, Ethiopia, the region's landlocked superpower, has hit on Berbera as its easiest access to the sea.
The state agreed to remove the eight-county region from the Cuomo administration's proposal for three new upstate New York casino resorts, while the tribe agreed to resume paying 25 percent of future gambling revenues to the state, with shares of that again going to Franklin and St.
On the opposite end of Connecticut, the Litchfield Hills region is the state's other major destination for serious leaf-peeping.
First, he has the good fortune to hail from the largest state in the region: Texas alone has 32 electoral-college votes.
That leaves the battle for Florida heavily contested in a handful of counties in the middle of the state: a region often referred to as the I-4 corridor after Interstate-4, which runs from the Tampa Bay region in the west through Orlando in the inland centre to Daytona Beach on the east coast.
With only one mill buying from each region, millers say farmers may be persuaded to sell below the state-fixed price.
They will discuss a variety of issues, as they always do -- regional issues as well as King Abdullah's important leadership role in the region, notably through his pursuit of our shared goal of a two-state solution through the Middle East peace process.
Burkesville sits amid rolling hills near the Tennessee-Kentucky state line along the Cumberland River, in the Appalachia region.
But through Transneft, the state-run Russian monopoly that owns many pipelines in the region, it retains serious clout.
That means the state-owned oil companies and large companies operating in the region either need to find new fields and basins or apply new technology to get more out of established ones.
Until recently Ram Krishna Khodpe and his four brothers were eking out a meager living cultivating cotton on their 5-acre farm in the semiarid region of Jalgaon in India's western state of Maharashtra.
As the Asian Crisis bites deeper, capitalism in the region is struggling to reconcile its free-market aspirations with the reality of increasing and indispensable state intervention.
The "Show Me State's" location in Mid-America, a "swing" region in national races, intensified the sudden campaign frenzy in Missouri.
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