Senator Lisa Murkowski has introduced a bill to formally change the name of North America's highest peak back to Denali ...

Why didn’t the United States annex Canada during earlier historical periods? In short, because it didn’t want to. President ...

Eighty years ago, 700 soldiers started an uphill battle — literally — as they scaled the walls of Riva Ridge in Italy to ...

In 1861, Major General John C. Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold ...

New Zealand has just granted legal personhood to a culturally and environmentally significant mountain. Here's what to know ...

By Kristine Sabillo New Zealand has formally granted a mountain legal personhood for the first time, recognizing not only its ...

By Mitch Smith Reporting from Liberty, Mo. An octogenarian who shot and injured a teenager who rang the wrong doorbell in Kansas City, Mo., pleaded guilty on Friday to second-degree assault ...

On Friday, West Virginia delegates introduced Resolution 33 which proposes recognizing the tallest point in the state, Spruce Knob, to be named Trump Mountain, honoring the accomplishments of ...

But the beauty of these bouquets comes at a cost. In Colombia, high in the Andes Mountains, a delicate cloud forest is being chipped away at, fragmented and polluted, say environmentalists in the ...

LIBERTY, Mo. — An 86-year-old Kansas City man pleaded guilty Friday to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor student who rang the white man’s doorbell by mistake.

ANDY An 86-year-old Kansas City man will plead guilty Friday to the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor student who rang the man’s doorbell by mistake, two people familiar with the case ...

An alarming video from Gaza shows young children handling oversized rifles in the absence of Hamas police. Despite Hamas's efforts to maintain order, children handling weapons instead of toys has ...