Flags signaled other units in battle, but were also a tangible manifestation of the beliefs and spirit of a group of people. As such, flags were protected to the point of injury or death. Men in ...

Gov. Kim Reynolds ordered all flags in Iowa to be lowered to half-staff Monday until the end of the day. Why are flags at ...

Gilbert Baker created the original pride flag in 1978. Baker was urged by Harvey Milk to create a symbol for the LGBT community and he chose a flag, which he saw as the most powerful symbol of pride.

The Office of Personnel Management Office of the Inspector General last month reported that the agency’s backlog of pending retirement claims, long a source of headaches for agency leaders and ...

For the second time in as many weeks, the Office of Personnel Management has announced that it will establish a temporary leave-sharing program to help employees who need time off from work to ...

Observances include national tragedies, days of remembrance and deaths of government or military personnel. The president, the state governor or the mayor of Washington, D.C. can order flags to ...

Victims of a school shooting, a state senator, police officers, prisoners of war and those still missing in action are among those being honored this weekend as several states fly flags at half-staff.

When did the Polish flag appear? What colour is it actually? What is the proper way to display it? What should you do with it when a storm is coming? And who wrote poems about it? Worthy of its very ...

Until the Executive Order of June 24, 1912, neither the order of the stars nor the proportions of the flag was prescribed. Consequently, flags dating before this period sometimes show unusual ...

This week is Fire Prevention Week. On Sunday, we saw Red Flag Warnings for multiple counties across the state. Thankfully, those warnings expired by the end of the day, but many communities ...

Minns says the protest is “not authorised,” after a court hearing on Thursday saw police and protesters agree the events could proceed with alterations. First thing I would like to say is that no ...