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 – ...

The massive wildfire burning near the U.S.-Mexico border grew by another 200 acres overnight and remained 10% contained. Cal ...

Jefferson County Board of Commissioners met Monday, Jan. 13, for their first meeting of the new year. The county commissioners tackled a number of topics impacting constituents across the county.

The rain that is expected to hit the scorched Los Angeles landscape this weekend may bring relief to the fire fights, but it ...

President Trump named voter identification laws as a requirement for California before he would release disaster relief to ...

Two lawsuits that alleged Nassau County's 19-district legislative map violated federal and state voting laws settled with a ...

The most dangerous state to raise a family has been revealed, with the findings based on FBI crime data. A separate map also ...

An effort to enact tougher new building standards in flood-prone areas in Waynesville is quickly losing steam. Town council last week held off on a proposal aimed to protect homeowners from future ...

Drought conditions are spreading across much of the state, including severe drought in 11 eastern North Carolina counties.

A Wisconsin-based geographer writes in a commentary that in the U.S., place names are standardized by the U.S. Board on ...

Latest data shows which counties have been hardest hit by bird flu outbreaks among poultry flocks as the human case count ...

Risk from tornadoes, floods, even earthquakes, all with a nearby nuclear power station, caused Scott County, Iowa to build a ...