A viral screenshot claiming that Donald Trump announced plans to annex Greenland and Alaska as the US's 52nd and 53rd states ...

Over the past 25 years, state officials have largely ignored hundreds of requests by rural school districts to fix the ...

Trump has repeatedly said in the past that he would like to annex Greenland. However, he has not said the same of Alaska. The ...

“They are choosing to look the other way and say the hell with us.” When Alaska became a state in 1959, its constitution ...

Rural school districts depend on the state to fund construction and maintenance projects. But over the past 25 years, Alaska ...

It’s relatively simple in the Constitution to welcome a state into the US, but it hasn’t been done since 1959, when Hawaii and Alaska both became states. The addition of those two states at ...

While that practice came to an end with statehood in 1959, Washington Sen. Wesley Jones had already firmly cemented Seattle’s monopoly over shipping to Alaska.

And while the chamber's size has been set at 435 since Congress's 1911 apportionment act (only expanding temporarily to 437 seats after the admission of Alaska and Hawaii in 1959), there's never ...

The Senate last united sufficiently to approve new states in 1959, when Alaska and Hawaii became states 49 and 50. Since then, the District of Columbia, home to the White House, and Puerto Rico ...

Detroiters packed up and left that city bound for Alaska to take advantage of the homestead land on the Kenai Peninsula that could be had for a $10 filing fee. The 21 families, displaying Alaska or ...