Usually, renaming a place starts locally. The people in the state or county propose a name change and gather support. The ...

The unanimous decision allows a developer to sell portions of the 386-unit project to individual builders, promoting a phased ...

Parts of the country remain under cold weather advisories and freezing warnings today, as the NWS warns of dangerous wind ...

A combination of hotter and drier weather and more people living in places that naturally burn are making things complicated.

After a record-breaking Gulf Coast storm, cities like New Orleans and Pensacola, Florida, have had more snow this winter than Omaha, Des Moines and New York.

The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

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 – ...

Mapmakers and teachers are rethinking what to call the body of water between Mexico, the U.S. and Cuba after President Trump ...

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

The Associated Press issued an updated style guidance in response to President Donald Trump's inauguration day executive orders that purported to rename two geographic landmarks, announcing a decision ...

Latest data shows which counties have been hardest hit by bird flu outbreaks among poultry flocks as the human case count ...

The country singer's son wrote a heartfelt open letter on Instagram after that viral inauguration performance: "You’re not ...