Flags will be lowered to half-staff on Monday, June 30, in Arizona. Here's why, plus the difference between half-staff and ...

Online voting opens in January, deciding if we want to keep the current flag, choose between one of the new 10 finalists or opt for two previous flags that have flown over Illinois, in 1918 and 1968.

Find out the interesting history behind all 50 of the U.S. state flags The U.S. state flags, explained The American flag, the Stars and Stripes, Old Glory—whatever you want to call it, there’s ...

There are two bills in the NH legislature this year that would change the current state flag, adopted in 1909. One proposes a flag featuring the iconic Old Man of the Mountain, while another would ...

Aug. 5—AUGUSTA — Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows on Monday unveiled a model design for what could soon become the new Maine state flag. The design was one of more than 400 submissions ...

Explain the meaning behind your flag: The state butterfly, the Monarch, is the focal point of this flag that includes 21 stars for Illinois being the 21st state (the large star represents Illinois).

Marco Rubio has wisely reinstated the State Department's One Flag Policy, which bars U.S. embassies from flying anything but the Stars and Stripes.

Flags engender such loyalty and pride, they often become very personal emblems with quirky or quaint nicknames: Old Glory, Union Jack, Maple Leaf — or SOB. That would be (state) “Seal on a ...

As one state senator in Utah put it when he was asked if remaking the flag was the best use of government time: “When you connect the values [we hold] with the symbols on the flag, we’re going ...

North Carolina Governor Josh Stein ordered flags to be flown at half-staff on June 27 in observance of Anti-Lynching ...

The state flag debate has been a contentious one in Maine, with two proposals similar to the legislation that passed last year failing in 2019 and 2021.