The first president realized that working with Congress – not alone or against it – was the best way to actually create an ...

UVU professor Rick Griffin knows Washington; he’s spent the past decade researching material for a book about our first president’s administrations.

The holiday, which is celebrated annually on the third Monday of February, commemorates the births of two great United States ...

President Trump boasted of his accomplishments in his first 43 days in office, comparing the start of his presidency to ...

Though rarely honored these days exactly on Feb. 22, his actual birth date, “Presidents Day” is officially still Washington’s birthday. And that’s entirely right and proper, as every ...

Its then-police chief carried an unregistered gun for some 30 days and improperly stored a loaded firearm, an investigation ...

The United States began celebrating its first president when he was still a general. Nearly 300 years since George Washington’s birth, the holiday has morphed into a celebration of the presidency.

The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington's Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others strikingly unusual.

George Washington was the first president of the United States. He has long been referred to as “the father of our country.” Yet as we celebrate Presidents Day, we struggle to remember who he ...

Longtime maple syrup producer Peggy Simons, who has researched the early history of Wayne County's maple sugar industry, is ...