State capitals often don’t get the attention they deserve, overshadowed by larger cities or famous tourist hubs, yet many of them offer layered experiences that surprise travelers with their ...

The most famous state capitals in America tend to receive a lot of praise, and deservedly so. Large cities like Austin, Atlanta, Nashville, and Denver have long been known not only as the seats of ...

State capitals don't always stay in one location. In fact, here are five states that moved to different cities (often multiple times).

Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Winter 2025 magazine. You can subscribe here. We don’t move state capitals around in this country very often, or at least we haven’t since the 19th ...

From sea to shining sea, the United States covers more than 3.7 million square miles, not including additional territories and dependencies. That’s a lot of space to live, and a lot of good and bad ...

When kids head back to school each fall, a common question is: “What did you do over the summer?” For Ajay Bentley, the answer is a long and interesting one. Ajay Bentley is a senior at Battle ...

Salem is one of the best U.S. state capitals for stargazing, according to a recent study. QR Code Generator, a website that allows users to create their own QR codes, conducted a study to find which U ...

Honking horns, backed-up traffic at lights, and more people at downtown restaurants and bars than you know what to do with. This isn’t your parents’ Boise. Idaho was once again one of the ...

Methodology: For this study, GOBankingRates analyzed each state capital to find the cost of living comfortably in each city. Data was culled from the U.S. Census American Community Survey, Sperling’s ...

WATCHING. WGAL NEWS EIGHT. THE UNITED STATES, AS WE KNOW IT TODAY HAS ONE CENTRAL CAPITAL, WASHINGTON, D.C., BUT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS CALLED SEVERAL CITIES HOME THROUGHOUT OUR NATION’S NEARLY ...