The Episcopal Church's double standard on illegal immigrants and Afrikaner refugees reminds me why I left The Episcopal ...

Irish author recently visited the small Alabama town where she used Google Maps to set her first book -- despite never having been there before.

Witness the powerful transformation of the American South as hurricanes reshape its landscapes and communities. This journey ...

Laura Smith talked about tourism in Alabama at Wednesday’s noon hour meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Valley. It’s a subject ...

An estimated 31 million tons of smelly brown seaweed is floating int eh Atlantic this year, experts say, and Florida beaches could see more than ever.

Both U.S. neighbors, Canada and Mexico, allow for unrestricted birthright citizenship as well as all but two countries in ...

A large-scale genome study shows that Indigenous peoples in the Americas split off several times, resulting in loss of ...

A federal appeals court that already has said private individuals and groups cannot sue under a key part of the federal ...

A reader asks why Onion Creek is so named. We looked in the American-Statesman archives and asked area experts.

From Trump's flirtation with renaming the Persian Gulf to the reignited conflict in Kashmir, these are some of the territorial disputes around the world.

Episode 5 of my "Can I name all 197 Flags of the World?" series! We have now learned all 47 flags of Europe & all 49 flags of ...

‘It’s South America, but you don’t have to worry about your phone being nicked or sudden gunfire’ Little Uruguay, wedged between the mighty Argentina and Brazil, is a nation of subtle ...