If you visit the western mountain and plains state of Montana you will know why it is known as Big Sky Country.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

The Department of Health in the state of Minnesota says you should throw away anything in soft packaging.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

Today we tell you about one of the few prisons in America that offer college-level classes: San Quentin State Prison in California.

VOA: special.2011.07.07

"In the name of the State of Tennessee, I order you not to defy its laws.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

Next week,we will tell you about more state nicknames, including one that is about people's feet!

VOA: special.2009.08.09

You can find it high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of the western state of California.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

I'm Steve Ember. Today,Mary Tillotson and I welcome you to a group of islands that extends into the Atlantic Ocean from the southern state of Florida.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

You can learn more about the different Fulbright programs by going online to fulbright.state.gov.

VOA: special.2009.02.12

Signs along roads entering the state welcome you to "wild,wonderful West Virginia."

VOA: special.2009.07.20

As we told you last week, every American state has a nickname.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

You would think Colorado would be known as the Rocky Mountain State.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

These people exist, Faulkner says,"in that dream state in which you run without moving from a terror in which you cannot believe, toward a safety in which you have no.."

VOA: special.2010.01.10

You can find the nearest one at educationusa.state.gov.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

If you get a chance to see a red sunset over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico, you will know why that southwestern state is called The Land of Enchantment.

VOA: special.2009.08.16