Texas lawmakers are meeting for the first time to address the deadly July 4 floods that killed at least 135 people.

A new report released by Invigor Medical has ranked each state by rates of STDs, including chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphillis ...

Still, there’s room for optimism and a lot of room for more local foods, Mat-Su’s State Sen. Shelley Hughes says. Hughes, one of the Legislature’s biggest boosters for farming, thinks we can grow our ...

The one-mile creek, located on a largely uninhabited island, had been given its name during World War II after the Americans ...

Alaska Airlines said its operations have resumed after a temporary ground stop was issued on all its flights and those of a regional subsidiary Horizon Air due to an IT outage affecting its operations ...

Russia formally sold Alaska to the United States for just $7.2 million. While this may seem like an unbelievable bargain today, there were several strategic and financial reasons behind the sale.

The United States is a land of vast diversity, and these 30 captivating maps showcase the many unique features that make each state stand out. Starting with a map of obesity rates, you'll see how the ...

Congressional Republicans voted to strip more than $1 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) ...

The “presidential lean” of a state can, over time, help us quantify its political trajectory.— Much of the Heartland and Midwest has come to lean more to the GOP over the past two decades, though the ...

NPR CEO Katherine Maher appeared on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown" to react to a Senate Republican push to defund the service. "As far as the accusations that were ...

The name “Nazi Creek” will no longer be used for federal databases or maps. On Thursday, the Domestic Names Committee for the ...

Little Kiska Island, at the far western end of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, is a remote speck of land that was heavily ...