The most expensive high school in Los Angeles history -- delayed for years because it was being constructed over potentially harmful gases -- opened Saturday near downtown. A ribbon-cutting was held at the 2,808-student Roybal Learning Center at 1200 W. C

Retired English professor and community volunteer Mary Alice Budge and preservationist and Westville co-founder Sue McLendon Moye will receive 2008 Governor's Awards in the Humanities for their service and dedication to history, literature and heritage.

DARTMOUTH — A four-week, 2009 Summer Teacher Institute at UMass Dartmouth will use Winslow Homer’s paintings as the point of departure for a voyage of discovery about maritime history in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Some 19 schools in Metro Detroit are expected to be among the K-12 public or private institutions statewide sharing 45 grants worth about $21,000 this year, the Michigan Humanities Council announced Wednesday.

In the mid-1800s, water was central to the lives of Ohioans: The state bustled with canal travel, every city of note was situated next to Lake Erie or a river, and many a factory was fueled by water power. Today, it seems, we central Ohioans barely not