LAKE SUCCESS, June 30--United States officers on the United Nations military staff committee recommended tentatively today that the Security Council should have a basic force of 3,800 warplanes ...

Hawaii is the 49th state to report bird flu in domestic poultry, with Louisiana now the only one yet to detect the virus. The ...

On January 3, 1959, Alaska was officially admitted as the 49th state. That same year, Hawaii would become the 50th.

AMERICA admitted Alaska and Hawaii as its 49th and 50th states in 1959 ... the longest such pause in America’s history. That a new state has not been forthcoming is not for lack of trying.

HILO (KHON2) — A nearly 50-year-old tradition ‘hit the dirt’ and grass in Hilo with the 49th annual Hawaii Kupuna ... toward the seeding for the Hawaii State Senior Citizens Softball ...