The state seal on Montana's flag features symbols of Montana’s history and environment. The pick, shovel and plow, represent the state’s mining and farming history.

The state seal on Montana's flag features symbols of Montana’s history and environment. The pick, shovel and plow, represent the state’s mining and farming history.

The Montana flag was among 15 state flags identified by the organization as being “most in need of design enhancement,” according to a recent press release from Love the Place You Live.

Minnesota officially raises new state flag, seal Old state flags that came down from above the Capitol are headed to the Minnesota Historical Society for preservation.

More than 2,000 submissions came in as Minnesota looks to redesign its state seal and state flag — and some took the assignment more seriously than others.

Minnesotans are already leaving thousands of comments on nearly a dozen finalists for a new state flag and seal, hoping to influence the process before a new state commission picks final designs.

But why is Minnesota getting a new flag at all? The current flag, adopted in 1957 with slight changes from one adopted in 1893, features the official state seal on a blue field.

Minnesota officials have whittled thousands of submissions for the state's new flag and seal to just a handful of standout designs in each category.

Minnesota's State Emblems Redesign Commission voted 11-1 to approve a new flag design, which, pending legislative approval, will begin flying in May 2024.

A new panel tasked with choosing a new state flag has received "a few hundred" submissions from Minnesotans sharing their ideas, the group's administrator said by email.