Supporters of a measure to create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery in Maryland rallied by the governor ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

Spencer Patterson, 31, was sentenced to 8½ years in prison for attempted battery with a deadly weapon, striking a law ...

A Hammond man sentenced to 33 years in prison for rape, child molesting and criminal confinement received a fair trial, ...

After a long weather delay in Resolute, Borge Ousland and Vincent Colliard flew by charter plane yesterday to Ward Hunt ...

Ellie is released from the hospital three months after Joel’s death and the assault on Jackson. The town council votes down Ellie’s request to send a group to Seattle to get justice for Joel. With an ...

The Northwest Territory did not officially exist until July of 1787, when the Northwest Ordinance was enacted. This was an important early ordinance in our history because it did a few things.

The land outside Taloyoak, Nunavut, is experiencing increasing environmental change. Canada’s political parties offer four distinct visions for Arctic defense and sovereignty in the current ...

In February, Sarah Leete captivated a crowd at the Seniors on the Bow with her alphabetical journey through the Northwest Passage to Greenland. By popular demand, the presentation will be held again ...

A labor rights group sued Starbucks on Thursday, alleging that it sourced coffee from a major cooperative in Brazil whose member farms were cited for keeping workers in slave-like conditions.

The next claimant to the number one spot in Greenland was a tenth-century Norseman blown off-course on passage from Norway towards Iceland. Gunnbjorn Ulf Dragesson saw land far to the northwest before ...