Michigan’s flag isn’t flashy, but it is packed full of symbols, and Saturday marked 115 years since it became the state’s official banner.

A symbolic change is bothering some Minnesotans. Now their local leaders are listening; several cities are voting to fly the old state flag instead of the new one. A flag meant to represent the North ...

Since 1895, the Alabama state flag has been a crimson St. Andrew’s cross on a rectangular field of white. The design was likely intended to “preserve in permanent form some of the more distinctive ...