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, ...

Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first ...

To celebrate this Fourth of July, let's take a look at each state's home run king, along with Washington D.C.'s.

Around 12 hours later, after she had convinced Senate leaders to change the bill to benefit her state and voted for the ...

A trail leading from near St. Louis, Missouri to Natchitoches, Louisiana, teaches us about a race that ruled “the new world” ...

To determine which places are ideal for outdoorsy folks, the charity-rating site SmileHub compared all 50 states across 18 ...

Do you think you know everything about the good ol' U.S. of A.? These fascinating U.S. geography facts are guaranteed to blow ...

Sweltering heat happens every summer, but to get close to the bar of a state's all-time hottest temperature usually takes a heat wave that's on another level.

The northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, may be visible in as many as 15 northern states Wednesday night, June 25, according to NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC). Most of ...

Several sites along the Natchitoches Trace have been labeled as a persistent place, which is to say a place that has been ...

A new map shows which states have the most people opposed to Christian prayer in schools. There is a cultural and legal ...

Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee is working to reassure skeptics who worry that his proposal to sell certain federal lands ...