Michigan’s isolated national park, Isle Royale, has two modes of public transportation crossing Lake Superior. There are two ...

Memorial Day weekend was the first of three long weekends this summer. Here's how many 3-day weekends are left in 2025 and what they are.

General John Logan had decades of military experience when he gave the order that set the stage for the creation of Memorial ...

Memorial Day, originally Decoration Day, was established in 1868 to honor fallen soldiers. Discover how communities across the North and South helped shape this important tradition.

In 1971, Congress officially established Memorial Day as a federal holiday, moving its observance to the last Monday in May ...

COMMENTARY: The Latin term means doing what is needed, regardless of discomfort, tiredness, ingratitude or fear — and giving ...

The USAA Poppy Wall of Honor returns to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to recognize 600,000 fallen heroes with a powerful Memorial Day tribute.

After devoting their careers to protecting our country’s natural and cultural treasures, Dan Wenk, Jeff Mow and John Donahue are watching harmful staff cuts and more gut the National Park Service — ...

AL.com today received three National Headliner awards, including for reporting on Alabama’s broken parole system, for a national examination of rising ocean temperatures and for covering a ...

Those distant summits are the Olympic Mountains, the towering heart of Olympic National Park ... like the Hoh Rain Forest early or later in the day to find more parking and fewer crowds.

That follows a three-day drop of 20 points. However, last week, the flagship average surged 44 basis points—reaching 7.14% Friday for its most expensive reading since May 29. In September ...

President Donald Trump fired at least three National ... debate in September with then-Vice President Kamala Harris in Atlanta and to 9/11 memorial services in New York the next day.