For decades, this place didn’t exist on any map - yet it was the most nuked location on Earth. The Soviet Union detonated 456 nuclear and hydrogen bombs here, while local civilians were kept ...

Vice President JD Vance is expected to embark on a trip to Greenland this week, as President Trump has repeatedly signaled in ...

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To a generation raised after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the Soviet Union may sound like a historical abstraction. But for those who lived under it, the word union ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Two Jackson County voters filed a lawsuit to stop Missouri’s new congressional map from being used in the 2026 elections. The ACLU of Missouri says the suit was filed in ...

In the summer of 1908, America was transfixed by the murder of a young woman found floating in a country pond in upstate New York. The mystery of Hazel Drew’s brutal murder was splashed across the ...

Winter sports are underway and Salem-Keizer athletes across basketball, wrestling and swimming are back in action. Every week, you get to vote for the Statesman Journal’s Athlete of the Week, ...