International tourists will have to wait and see how their upcoming visits to Acadia National Park will be affected by President Donald Trump's call to increase fees paid at National Park Service ...

Attorneys for the state of Maine and a conservative lawmaker who identified a transgender teen student athlete online now agree that the lawmaker’s appeal over her ...

The West is filled with land that helps to preserve vital wildlife habitats, according to conservation groups and ecologists.

LGBTQ+ historians spoke with Newsweek about the history of activists like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.

Conservation groups gathered to support two national monuments, opposing a plan by the Trump administration to open lands to ...

The Frances Perkins Center in Newcastle will host a kickoff to celebrate its inaugural summer season as a national monument. The event is scheduled for June 21, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., in ...

President Joe Biden has designated a new national monument in Maine honoring the country's first female cabinet secretary Frances Perkins. Perkins, a native of Massachusetts, was a key architect ...

The official designation is for the Newcastle home of former U.S. Labor Secreatary Frances Perkins, who was the first woman to serve on a presidential Cabinet.

Biden issued the proclamation — the eighth national monument he has created under the Antiquities Act — in a ceremony at the Labor Department, which Perkins led for 12 years under former ...

December 16, 2024 London Express/Getty Images (NEWCASTLE, MAINE) — President Joe Biden will sign a proclamation on Monday to establish the Frances Perkins National Monument in Newcastle, Maine.