Spokeo analyzed state government information and other historical sources to compile this list of stories behind every state's nickname.

Photo credit: victoria cervantes Most lighthouses are content to sit on easily accessible points of land, where visitors can ...

Volunteer divers found the body of a Sand Point teenager missing since Monday, authorities said Friday. The remains were recovered Thursday evening and belonged to 15-year-old Kaipo Kaminanga, said ...

A 23-year-old man died after crashing his motorcycle into a pickup truck Sunday in Lighthouse Point, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office said. The crash happened around 11:30 p.m. near the 4800 block ...

EAST TAWAS, Mich. — Michigan is looking for the next Tawas Point Lighthouse keepers. Applications are being accepted now. The lighthouse is located in Tawas Point State Park. That’s on the east side ...

Have you ever wanted to be a lighthouse keeper in Michigan? Now is your chance! The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has opened applications for the 2026 Lighthouse Keeper Program at Tawas ...

MANISTEE, MI – The restoration of a nearly century-old Lake Michigan lighthouse will be finished in time for it to open for tower climbs this spring. The public will be welcomed into this treasured ...

The Friends of the Point Vicente Lighthouse hosted local historian Jim Schneer on Saturday, Jan. 10, during the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary’s monthly open house at the lighthouse. Schneer discussed the ...

NEENAH (WLUK) -- The city of Neenah announced Thursday it has reached its fundraising goal of $280,000 for the restoration and preservation of the Kimberly Point Lighthouse. The fundraising campaign ...

Framed by the fireplace in Alaska’s governor’s mansion earlier this month, Gov. Mike Dunleavy shook hands and posed for pictures in the final holiday open house of his two terms as Alaska’s top ...

ORANGEBURG — A scraggly tree stands sentinel over a lonesome stretch of Interstate 26 about halfway between Charleston and Columbia. The distinctive American Bald Cypress, or Swamp Cypress, covered in ...