Innisfree McKinnon is an associate professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. McKinnon's focus is how ...

A Wisconsin-based geographer writes in a commentary that in the U.S., place names are standardized by the U.S. Board on ...

Galen Bacharier covers North Carolina politics and government for NC Newsline. NC Newsline is part of States Newsroom, the ...

President Donald Trump floated “getting rid” of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Friday as he visited ...

In the fall of 2018, officials with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and their partners celebrated what they thought ...

University of Alaska Anchorage Chancellor Sean Parnell has announced that he would retire at the end of the spring semester.

A commentary author writes that she is learning about the naming traditions “Denali” and other Alaska Native names for ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans on Thursday advanced the nomination of veteran and onetime Fox News host Pete Hegseth to ...

Jake Goldstein-Street is a reporter for the Washington State Standard. He joined the Standard after working as a breaking news reporter, investigative reporter and editor at The Everett Herald. He ...

The judge’s ruling in the case is the first in the fight over the order to end birthright citizenship’s constitutionality.

The Alaska Legislature will take up election reform proposals this session, with Gov. Mike Dunleavy introducing a bill ...

Trump policies reversing Biden-era environmental restrictions will enable more resource development in Alaska, the governor ...