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 ...

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 ...

It’s becoming a grimly familiar story. In just the past two weeks, destructive and deadly flooding has occurred in Maryland, ...

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 ...

Tens of thousands of people are expected to turn out for "Good Trouble" demonstrations, honoring civil rights icon John Lewis and protesting Trump policies.

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

German soldiers never set foot on the speck of land at the far end of the Aleutian Islands during World War II, but the name ...

A small creek on Alaska’s Little Kiska Island has been renamed, more than 80 years after it was named after Germany’s Nazi Party by World War II soldiers fighting in the Aleutians.

Texas State Senator Angela Paxton has filed for divorce from her husband, Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton, who ...

As ICE terrorizes communities across the country, the public is hugely supportive of immigration—and despises his mass deportation pledge.