David Tristan

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — With the snip of a ribbon, on December 8, 2023, the new Pennsylvania Archive Building opened for business. Building the new building took years, and so did planning t…

(WHTM) — It’s 1781 in Yorktown, Virginia, a British army under the command of Major General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, surrenders to a combined force of Americans under Majo…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — The Hilton Hotel in Harrisburg hosts many conferences and meetings. But today’s conference has an unusual topic: bats. It’s the annual meeting of the Nort…

PALOMARES, Spain (WHTM) — It was called Operation Chrome Dome. On January 17, 1966, a USAF B-52G bomber, which flew from Seymour Air Force Base in North Carolina to somewhere near the Soviet Union’s border with Europe, was preparing to perform its second mid-air refueling of the mission with a KC-135 tanker over the Mediterranean […]

Baltimore, MD (WHTM) Meet Mirasol, one very, VERY large rat. “She’s about 1.7 kilograms,” says Jenny Egan, the Senior Area Manager for the Maryland Zoo at Baltimore. “She is…

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — At the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center, the famous cyclorama painting depicting the climax of Pickett’s Charge is getting cleaned up…

Science Classrooms Across the Nation (WHTM) — February 7 is National Periodic Table Day, when we celebrate the efforts of scientists over the centuries to figure out how different elements ar…

(WHTM) — The U.S. Navy got started twice. The first time was on October 13, 1775, when the Continental Congress passed a resolution calling for “a swift sailing vessel, to carry ten carriage …

“Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Const…

YORK COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM)– It turns out Spotted Lanternflies can be useful after all – once they’ve been squished… After being dispatched with some fancy footwork, this ex-lanternfl…