March 27 marks the anniversary of the onset of Mauna Loa’s dramatic 1868 eruption, when lava flows from the Southwest Rift ...

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...

Five minutes after squeezing into the Cessna 206 with three other giddy passengers, the blue-and-white six-seater zipped ...

Fish fries are, of course, very important yearly fundraisers for churches, VFWs, fire halls and more. But the fish fry also means community building, catching up with old friends and honoring ...

More than a billion people use Google Maps to help them navigate their world every month. If you own a smartphone, the odds ...

Gov. Jeff Landry signed an executive order to replace the name “Gulf of Mexico” with “Gulf of America” in state documents and ...

A supposed 'hot mic' recording claims to capture Trump suggesting that the nation's capital should no longer be called ...

Gov. Jeff Landry signed an executive order that directs state agencies to change all references to the Gulf of Mexico in ...

And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

Porras is sponsoring House Bill 549, which would embed the "Gulf of America" within state agencies and school curriculum. If ...

It also removed the indigenous name Denali from the tallest mountain peak in the United States and restored it to Mount McKinley, which had been its ... taken to “restore American pride.” Google Maps ...

Cases of measles, a highly infectious disease that is particularly dangerous to children, have been reported in 12 U.S. states since the beginning of 2025, according to the Centers for Disease ...