From ski trips to Northeastern slopes to Hawaiian holidays, some of my favorite travel experiences in the United States have ...

Ohio State is taking on Indiana in the Big Ten championship game. We know what a Buckeye is. So what's a Hoosier? Here's an explanation.

If you're a fan of a fully packed sandwich served on freshly baked bread and featuring homemade giardiniera, keep an eye out ...

Rivalry week brings a slate of high-level football and storied history with nicknames that go deeper than the game itself.

In this month’s “We the People,” we looked into why Idaho is called the Gem State. The origin of our state’s nickname dates ...

Our dependence on the environment is so ingrained in human culture that we acknowledge connections with nature in a diversity ...

The 2025 Michigan high school football season ends, like always, this coming weekend in downtown Detroit at Ford Field with the state finals games for all eight divisions of 11-player football. This ...

Everybody knows New Hampshire is often called the Granite State. But where did the moniker originate? It’s not just because much of the state’s bedrock is granite, or because of the granite quarries ...

The Justice Department on Thursday filed suit to block California’s newly approved congressional map, thrusting the nation’s most populous state into a widening national battle over redistricting and ...

Philanthropist Mackenzie Scott has donated an additional $50 million to Norfolk State University, the largest award the university has received in its history. Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie ...

The last state in the nation without some form of a budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year finally has a spending plan in place. Gov. Josh Shapiro signed a $50.1 billion state budget Wednesday after ...