Dec. 16 (UPI) --President Joe Biden on Monday will sign a proclamation establishing a national monument in Maine honoring Frances Perkins, the first woman to sit in the presidential Cabinet who ...

Officials from one western North Dakota county where land could end up as part of a proposed national monument along the Maah Daah Hey Trail have come out against it. Last month, a group of North ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday established a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet and ...

The monument would consist of 11 separate parcels, totaling around 139,000 acres along the trail connecting the north and south units of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Dakota Prairie Grasslands ...

The Newcastle home of labor secretary Frances Perkins – the central architect behind the New Deal – will become Maine’s second national monument after a declaration by President Biden on Monday.

President Biden is set to designate a national monument in Maine commemorating pioneering former Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, who served as the nation’s first woman Cabinet secretary under ...

Idaho lacks a national park due to local opposition, particularly from farmers worried about land use restrictions. City of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will sign a proclamation Monday establishing a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, the first woman appointed to ...

Frances Perkins National Monument in Maine. President Joe Biden officially designated her family’s historic homestead as America’s 433 rd national park site on Monday. Here’s what you ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins chats with reporters in New York, Nov. 27, 1945, as she arrives ...