Localities around the area celebrated the birth of American Independence with special events featuring fireworks shows.

Portsmouth City Councilor Andrew Bagley pushes to fund 2026 July 4 fireworks show after a city announcement stating the 2025 show might be the last.

These challenges to our ability to practice our faith have strained the comfortable intermingling of church and state." ...

By Katie Lyford Sailors from the U.S. Navy submarine, the USS Montpelier, came to Montpelier for their annual visit during ...

The United States of America’s 249th birthday celebration was held in grand fashion last Friday, July 4, as several public ...

On July 9, 2011, the Republic of South Sudan declared its independence from Sudan and became Africa's 54th nation.

Presque Isle’s restored one-room schoolhouse hosted a fitting Fourth of July celebration: a reading of the Declaration of ...

A crazy July 4 tradition replaces fireworks exploding in the sky with cars launching off a cliff and plummeting to the ground ...

And now it begins. With 2025’s Fourth of July celebrations now over, next up on the American party list is a considerably awesome one. That would be, of course, the celebration of America’s 250th ...

"Douglass wrote that democracy is not a set-and-done thing," West Stockbridge Historical Society President Bob Salerno told ...

Meanwhile, anguished parents waited for word on the 10 young campers still missing from Camp Mystic, which was hit hard by ...

President Donald Trump signed 'The Big Beautiful Bill,' his legislative agenda on taxes and immigration during a July 4 ...