Cascarones are confetti-filled egg shells that families smash over each other's heads as part of Easter celebrations in Texas and Northern Mexico.

Flags representing pride, Confederacy, Black Lives Matter, Blue Lives Matter and others would be prohibited in classes under ...

The debates around adopting official state symbols offer levity along with valuable civics lessons for students.

The Texas Senate gave preliminary approval to a bill that would restrict which flags public schools can display on campuses.

Tortillas in New Mexico, steak in Oregon... Bigfoot in California? Why US states are adopting new symbols - Legislating isn’t always about taxes, tariffs and other serious issues. Lawmakers sometimes ...

Former state House majority leader Sheryl Williams Stapleton alleges in a new lawsuit that Albuquerque police used ...

Texas Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola, authored a resolution to make the cannon the official state gun of Texas. On April 10, ...

Read more › The Trump administration on Sunday evening doubled down on its assertion that a federal judge cannot force it to bring back to the United States a Maryland man who was unlawfully deported ...

A bill naming the tortilla the state bread of New Mexico was vetoed, but Oregon may still adopt the T-bone as the state steak ...