March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and public health officials are reminding everyone that colon cancer is the ...

"Some clients come to us with years of research, and they want to spend weeks overseas totally devoted to their family history." "This form of travel is more common among older generations." ...

When I was a child, my family was part of a “church” led by my grandfather. I didn’t realize until I was a teenager that it had been a cult. And not just a cult. When I was 9, there was a ...

Dot Bardarson, a well-known Alaska artist from Seward, has won many awards and commissions for her work and has long served as an arts advocate. Among her honors are the 2019 Alaska Governor’s ...

March 13, 2025 • Dinosaurs, Carl Sagan, and nuclear war. There was a moment in the not-so-distant past when we learned what drove the dinosaurs extinct — and that discovery, made during the ...

Appointed in 1910, Alice Stebbins Wells patrolled dance halls, skating rinks, penny arcades and movie theaters, keeping these public spaces free of vice and immorality Women Who Shaped History As ...

Surnames can reveal much about your family history, but they can also be a minefield of misinformation. By Paul Blake. Twenty members of the public describe what spurred them on to discover more ...

School's out and workloads are lighter, making summer a prime season to travel with the whole crew. Considering factors that make a destination stand out for families (like family-friendly ...

Demilitarized zones—from Vietnam to Korea, Cyprus and Antarctica—require tourists to look beyond what exists and to find the real stories in what doesn’t Behind the dreamy scenery of the HBO ...