With its broad stripes and bright stars, our nation’s flag demands respect. But ask an expert (which is to say, a vexillologist) and it turns out that all flags are NOT created equal. Mo Rocca takes a ...

After a monthslong selection process, a Minnesota commission chose a new design for the state’s flag that was adopted May 11. The flag includes a star and blue coloring, as does Somalia’s national ...

Ohad Hadad’s flag (image courtesy Jerusalem Design Week 2018) In the midst of Israel’s most contentious identity crisis in decades, earlier this summer Jerusalem Design Week 2018 released a variety of ...

Maine is seeking design ideas before voters in November determine whether to adopt a new, more distinctive flag. By Amanda Holpuch Anyone with an idea for how the Maine state flag should look has a ...

The social media platform redesigned the emoji to a version of the flag popular with opposition groups as anti-government protests sweep the country. One of these 10 modern designs will be the next ...

HAVE YOU ever met a vexed vexillologist? This is someone who frets when flags are badly designed. Sadly, too many flags flutter to deceive: they are cluttered with imagery, a mess of colours and all ...

But in an historic first for the state and historic last for the country, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves signed a bill into law on Tuesday that not only removes that battle emblem from its flag, but ...

A beehive and a mountain range are the prominent features of the design a state task force is recommending to be the new Utah state flag. The final design, announced Tuesday by the Utah State Flag ...

The design, chosen from thousands of submissions, would replace the current flag, which was criticized by some as racist. By Livia Albeck-Ripka Minnesota on Tuesday announced the winning design for ...

Stephen Swanson is a web producer at CBS News Minnesota. Stephen was a floor director for a decade before moving to the WCCO-TV newsroom in 2011, where he focuses on general assignment reporting.