And yet, until the late 19th century, the San Joaquin Valley held a lake more than 100 miles long and over 30 miles wide.

In the heart of downtown Dallas sits the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library. If you venture onto the seventh floor into a darkened back room, you’ll find a piece of what July Fourth is all about: an ...

The start of an eight-day celebration, the community gathered on Christmas Day in Kiener Plaza to see the lighting of what organizers say is the tallest menorah west of the Mississippi River.

PUEBLO WEST — Tuesday, the 4th of July, was the return of the largest water fight west of the Mississippi. Thousand of people lined the streets along Joe Martinez Boulevard to celebrate the ...

O nce upon a time — the early 20th century to be precise — Tulare Lake was the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi. And since that time, it hasn’t been a permanent presence.

Marshall Teague and wife Mitzy show off the hardware after he won NASCAR’s first race west of the Mississippi in 1951. Another Cup race was held on that same day in Mobile, Ala.

The 10-foot long, 460-pound shark, known as Crystal, was last located in late January about 60 nautical miles off Louisiana's coast west of the Mississippi River, according to scientists at ...

After being dried in barns, the tobacco leaves will be auctioned in November. The annual sale in Weston is the only tobacco auction west of the Mississippi River. The first Weston auction was in 1911.