The Landes region of southwestern France was for much of its history impoverished, with few roads and vast swaths of marshy and treacherous terrain. To navigate the soft and unsteady heathlands, ...

Stilt, a Y Combinator alum that provides financial services for immigrants without Social Security numbers or credit reports, announced today that it has closed a $7.5 million seed round. It also ...

Stilt, a provider of financial services for immigrants in the United States, announced today it has raised a $100 million warehouse facility from Silicon Valley Bank for lending to its customers. This ...

A midcentury modern home on a Los Angeles hillside just came on the market for $1,599,000. Known as the Stilt House, it previously had a star turn on the silver screen. Built in 1962, the unique ...

2 of 6 — An illustration, circa 1800, shows men in Landes, France, walking on stilts to protect their feet from the marshy ground. 3 of 6 — A stilt walker works in the hop fields of Wateringbury, ...

When Liu Guoliang puts on his makeup and straps on his stilts, he’s participating in a Chinese tradition that’s been in existence for centuries, if not millennia. There are many different origin ...

O’Ryan McGowan-Arrowroot is wearing colorful pants that are way too long with vertical stripes and a shirt with bold horizontal stripes. His polka dot socks are mismatched. He puts on a hat made from ...

PORT RICHEY, Fla. -- Patty Deremer was one of the first people to see a piece of Pasco County history burning away to ash. “We just sat here and had a few beers and watched it burn,” she said from the ...

For professional drywall installers and contractors, having a pair of drywall stilts on hand is a must. These adjustable stilts simplify the process of working on items above your head. Drywall stilts ...

Hasbro’s latest Marvel Legends Build-A-Figure (BAF) wave has been unveiled, and it’s super fun. The Stilt-Man wave includes Peter B. Parker, Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy, and Prowler from the Spider-Man: ...

A couple of years ago, NPR's Robert Siegel had a 5-year-old kid moment. He was in the new wing of a hospital watching a workman put up drywall and, as drywall installers are wont to do, the workman ...