NOVEMBER 4, 2025 — As Hillsboro, Oregon nears its 150th anniversary next year, the city is turning to its residents to help select its first community flag, says Forest Grove News-Times. Through December 10, locals are invited to visit the city’s Engage Hillsboro website to review three final flag designs and vote for their favourite….
OCTOBER 20, 2025 — In England, residents across Telford and Wrekin are being asked to cast their votes to help decide the design of the borough’s first official flag, according to a press release by the Council. The opportunity follows a popular local competition in June that saw more than 1,000 schoolchildren submit entries earlier…
OCTOBER 7, 2025 — In Florida, St. Petersburg City Council member Gina Driscoll is proposing that the city fly two new city flag designs celebrating inclusion and heritage, a move intended to reinforce the city’s identity as both welcoming and historically aware, WTSP-TV reports. The initiative comes after state officials removed several murals honouring LGBTQ+…
OCTOBER 1, 2025 — A recent City Council meeting at Fort Collins, Colorado, turned its attention to the city’s flag after a twelve-year-old resident urged leaders to consider a redesign, reports the Coloradoan. Speaking before councilmembers on September 2, the student argued that the current flag does not meet widely recognized standards of flag design…
OCTOBER 1, 2025 — The city of Coria in the province of Cáceres, Spain has opened the public information period for the adoption of its official city flag, reports El Periódico Extremadura, giving residents and interested parties the opportunity to examine the proposal and submit any claims or objections. According to the Cáceres Provincial Official…
SEPTEMBER 25, 2025 — In Washington, six finalist designs have been selected in Vancouver’s city flag competition, narrowing the field from 138 public submissions. “Each finalist tells a different story about who we are as a community,” said Mayor Anne McEnerny-Ogle, according to Clark County Today. The selection process was led by the Vancouver Flag…
SEPTEMBER 4, 2025 — Massachusetts is moving forward with the selection of a new state flag, narrowing the field to three distinctive finalists last week, reports CBS News. The current initiative is part of a broader reevaluation of the state’s symbols, driven by the need to move away from the long-criticized imagery linked to colonial…
AUGUST 31, 2025 — Finland’s Air Force is set to remove the swastika symbol from its unit flags and replace it with an eagle design, according to the Helsingin Sanomat. The swastika, a symbol in use since the Air Force’s founding in 1918, has become a source of international embarrassment and confusion due to its…
AUGUST 31, 2025 — The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT), located on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana, USA, are considering a new tribal flag designed to better represent all three constituent tribes: the Séliš (Salish), Ksanka (Kootenai), and Ql̓ispé (Upper Pend d’Oreille), reports the Char-Koosta News on their website and on a…
AUGUST 23, 2025 — The Massachusetts Seal, Flag, and Motto Advisory Commission, established by the state legislature in 2024, has recently announced the next step in its ongoing effort to redesign the Commonwealth’s official symbols. After receiving over 1,150 public submissions, the Advisory Commission has advanced a total of 23 seal designs, 48 flag designs,…