MADISON - Wisconsin's holiday tree is now lit and on display for visitors. The tree lighting on Dec. 4 featured a host of performers and speakers, and largely focused on highlighting education and ...

WASHINGTON — After a gray, rainy day at the U.S. Capitol, the clouds parted, revealing a sunset that one could call borrowed from the desert skies of Nevada. A bald eagle circled overhead, squirrels ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Coloradans will have the opportunity to get into the holiday spirit and see the U.S. Capitol’s Christmas tree as it travels from Alaska to the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol building.

For the past 55 years, the U.S. Forest Service has provided a Christmas tree for the U.S. Capitol, each year from a different national forest. This year’s (2025) tree is a 53-foot Red Fir from ...

Knight-Swift Transportation driver Michael Porter recently hauled the 2025 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree from the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in Nevada to Washington, D.C., on a multi-state tour.

Knight-Swift driver Michael Porter delivered the 53-foot U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree to the West Lawn on Nov. 21 after a 3,700-mile tour across nine states. The cross-country haul featured 15 ...

As a tiny seedling began sprouting in the forest along Mount Rose Highway west of Reno, the Vietnam War was ending under President Gerald Ford, the price of gas was 53 cents per gallon and the ...