The Trump administration transferred 28,000 acres (11,331 hectares) in a remote part of Northwest Alaska to a native corporation, putting more land near a proposed mining road under local control.

Republican senators aren’t happy about how President Donald Trump treated Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), whom the president ...

Since 2006, almost 500 people have been killed by lightning strikes in the U.S., according to the National Lightning Safety ...

The United States is in the midst of a place-renaming moment. From the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, ...

A Baltimore County panel sent its plan for redrawing political maps to the County Council, but it might end up being dead on arrival.

All five proposed redistricting maps would give Republicans the edge in one of Tarrant County’s Democrat-controlled precincts, data shared by the county shows.

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— While the nation has more than 3,100 counties, just about 150 of them cast roughly half of all presidential votes.— In the Trump era, the gap between the biggest ...

House Republicans scored a valuable pickup in Alaska's lone seat in the chamber, defeating Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge based on constitutional free speech protections to a voter-approved measure in Alaska that requires greater public disclosure of ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — President-elect Donald Trump promised repeatedly during his campaign to expand oil drilling in the U.S., which is good news for political leaders in Alaska, where oil is the ...