In 1913, three Nome legislators departed by dog sled in the second week of January to reach the inaugural session, which started nearly two months later in Juneau.

Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall could easily be mistaken by the unfamiliar tourist for a religious shrine of preeminent sanctity. Massive and tastefully ...

Several structures in Ypsilanti bear the name of "Starkweather". These mark the legacy of a woman who championed social ...

Industrial supplies distributor Turner Supply has acquired Progressive Supply — a Woodstock, GA-based provider of MRO solutions. Representing Turner Supply’s entry into the Atlanta and North Georgia ...

Seattle, which is home to Amazon and Microsoft, currently employs some 193,000 well-compensated Washingtonians working in the tech sector. One major ...

“Washington is a state that has had an extremely regressive tax structure for 93 years,” House Majority Leader Joe Fitzgibbon, a Democrat, said in an interview. “It falls very heavily on working and ...

Dr. Butch Ware, the Green Party representative for Governor of California, discusses his political journey, progressive platform, and belief in a third party.

Toni Preckwinkle is running for her fifth term. If she’s ultimately successful, she would equal former President George Dunne as the board’s longest-serving leader.

Last week, Iranian worshipers gathered for the first Friday prayers since the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. For most of the mourners, Khamenei was the only ruler they had ever known. After ...

Illinois state Sen. Karina Villa is in a four-person race to replace longtime Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza, who decided last year not to run for another term.

Fuentes, who sits at the center of the Republican Party’s antisemitism rift, wrote a court-ordered apology to Marla Rose, a ...

The nation’s official motto, “In God we trust,” has appeared on coins since the Civil War. The Pledge of Allegiance promises ...