The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...

Washington, D.C., could be renamed to the "District of America," U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert told fellow lawmakers Tuesday ...

Wisconsin's upcoming Supreme Court race is just entering its final stretch and it's already breaking records as the most ...

Black don’t crack.” “It is not that racist ideas and largely fake data are present in the literature,” Newman would later ...

Google has agreed to pay $28 million to resolve a class action lawsuit that alleged the tech giant gave preferential treatment to white and Asian employees by offering them higher pay and placing them ...

Between brutal fire seasons in Los Angeles, David Longstreth wrote “Song of the Earth,” an album that captures the beauty, ...

From cherry blossoms at Salem’s Capitol Mall to kayaking across Netarts Bay, poke around western Oregon from the valley to ...

Mount Spurr has shown increasing signs of activity. These are now at a level where an eruption is plausible. Nothing is ever guaranteed with Alaskan volcanoes: they can always ...

The Supreme Court seems closely divided over a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map, which added a second Black ...

A pilot and two children were rescued hours after their aircraft crashed into frigid waters, marking a miraculous survival ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A teenager has died after triggering an avalanche, the fourth person killed in snow slides in Alaska this month. Alaska State Troopers said the body of 16-year-old ...

Last week, the BAS released Bedmap3, "the most detailed map yet" of Antarctica's landscape beneath its blanket of ice, a ...