Explore the Columbia River: its map, rich history from Native Americans to pioneers, impressive length, and facts about its ...

Explore the Snake River: its map, rich history from Native Americans to pioneers, impressive length, and facts about Hells ...

A Runestone That May Be North America’s Oldest Turns Up in a Canada Forest Researchers spent years quietly studying a stone carved with 255 runes and the image of a boat found in Ontario.

"St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska," as she is officially known, was canonized June 19 as the first female ...

A staged legal proceeding in a small town became the catalyst for a century of culture wars.

The Orthodox Church in America has its first female saint from North America. Hundreds of pilgrims joined several bishops in an elaborate ceremony to canonize St. Olga Michael in her remote ...

The word you use generally boils down to where you’re from: Midwesterners enjoy a good pop, while soda is tops in the North ...

The countdown to the 250th anniversary of American independence has begun—here are 9 museum exhibitions to add to your ...

Sprawl made suburbia affordable. Now it’s breaking it. Here’s what a new vision of the suburbs could look like.

Dogs have lived with Indigenous Americans since before they came to the continent together 10,000 years ago. A new analysis ...

A number of early settlers of the Fulton County village were from the Scottish city of Dunfermline (pronounced "Done-ferm-lin") and gave it its name in the 1870s. The Scottish city on the southwestern ...

For a city not known for glaring sunshine, Portland has a surprisingly robust hat culture, with milliners applying the same dedication others do to craft beer and roast coffee beans.