The Interior Department created in 1849 as the United States was rapidly expanding and acquiring territory. It became known as “the department of everything else” for its enormous portfolio of ...

The story has been updated. The Department of the Interior was created in 1849 as the United States was rapidly expanding and acquiring territory. It became known as “the department of ...

President Donald Trump has the power to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, but whether people will call it ...

How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...

The Department of the Interior, the federal agency with the most trust and treaty responsibilities in Indian Country, officially has a new leader.

President Trump fired 17 inspectors general across federal agencies. Here's what an inspector general does and who they work ...

When asked why he would put Linda McMahon in charge of the education department only to get rid of it, Trump said, "I want ...

President Trump’s mass firing of 17 inspectors general late Friday flouted the law and sparked widespread condemnation from ...

The first action is for the Department of the Interior to adopt the name change ... needs and website update scheduling. What does that all mean? Take an agency like the National Oceanic ...

The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Interior Department ... of anything about President Trump wanting to do anything other than advancing energy production ...

Mark Greenblatt, a former inspector general of the Department of the Interior, described the moment ... Greenblatt said he does not know why he was removed. He said, as far as he knows, all ...

The Interior Department announced ... its heroes and historic assets," the department said in a statement. Donald Trump signed a controversial executive order Monday ordering the name changes after ...