To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Google Earth, you can now go back in time when scrolling with a handy 'Historical ...

Recent headlines have drawn attention to naming conventions and mapping technology. But maps have always been political, ...

Many places in Michigan, including cities and streets, have French-origin names, a remnant of the state's past. Here's what to know.

Atop Mount Greylock, veterans honor the past, reckon with the present during Memorial Day ceremony. By Lauren Dorsey, The Berkshire Eagle. Lauren Dorsey. Eagle Reporter. Author email; May 25, 2025 May ...

On the surface, it’s a bit like the Netflix phenomenon “Adolescence.” But days after reading it, Vijay Khurana’s novel still haunts my thoughts.

Finding the perfect Mother’s Day gift can be a challenge—after all, moms aren’t always the easiest to shop for But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible.

Entertainment on Pleasant Street includes Musical Fun with Steve Blunt & Marty Kelley, Bryson Lang, Juggler Extraordinaire! and TJ Wheeler. The Children’s Day map will be available at the event ...

Tourism promoters helped to popularize the name “Inca Trail” for the path to Machu Picchu; 500 people a day now crowd onto the route, often unaware that it is just “43 kilometers of what was ...

This incident is recounted in Gabe Henry’s “Enough Is Enuf,” a rich and engaging history of the attempts, from the 16th century to the present day, to bring written English into line with ...

The final day has 2,340 feet of climb, almost one-fourth of the roughly 10,000 for the entire week. RAGBRAI ended in Guttenberg in 1980, 1987, 1996, 2005 and 2014.

What’s new: Almost half of global average temperature rise and a third of sea-level rise can be attributed to the “carbon majors,” the world’s 122 largest fossil fuel and cement producers ...