California has 42 official state symbols after Governor Newsom signed three bills to create new symbols in 2024, including the Dungeness crab as the state crustacean, the banana slug as the state slug ...

MINNEAPOLIS --From our many lakes to our hearty foods, Minnesota has many well-known symbols. But there are nearly 20 officially designated for the state. How are official state symbols chosen? And ...

Many things can be said about Arkansas, but some things are more than said -- in fact, they are legislated. The state has 24 officially enacted symbols by historian David Ware's count, not including ...

A new bill could make walleye Ohio’s official state fish, with advocates pointing to its billion-dollar impact on the state’s ...

Not everything has what it takes to become a state symbol. The lowly leech and icky wood tick can only gaze wistfully at those symbols that so proudly embody what it means to be Minnesotan: The ...

The 60-day legislative session has come and gone, and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said she does not think lawmakers used their time wisely. More than a thousand bills were introduced during the ...

You probably know Tennessee's state flag features a Tristar circle, but what about the state beverage? Or wild animal?

Have you ever wondered why Wisconsin's state bird is the robin, why our state fruit is the cranberry, why our state animal is the badger? It might surprise you to know that often our state symbols ...

An editor at the News Tribune was surprised recently to discover that Minnesota has a state bee. She made the mistake of asking me about it. If asked, I tend to go on about bees until people start ...

In March, Texas Monthly‘s Christian Wallace excoriated the fact that the unloved “Texas, Our Texas” remained our state song in spite of hundreds of worthier alternatives. You had a lot of thoughts on ...

Missouri’s most common fossil is an invertebrate, the crinoid, also known as “sea lilies”. Despite the name, they’re more ...