In a sign of spring, little colored flags are popping up along with surveyors and their equipment. Here's what each color means.

The U.S. Lifesaving Association does list other less-common flags on its website, including red/yellow halved flags, black/white quartered flags, and red/white quartered flags.

Each custom-made silk flag used by the 25 members of the color guard can take six hours to make, and members use three different flags each season. JOHN CLANTON/Tulsa World ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - A group of neighbors in Ann Arbor have united to show support for gay rights after the Nov. 8 election by flying rainbow-colored flags. Seventeen out of 40 houses along a ...

Like other beach towns, Emerald Isle decides what color flag to fly based on National Weather Service advisories issued daily around 4 a.m. The flags fly 24/7 and are changed, if needed, between 8 ...

Different-colored flags, indicators of race conditions, will be placed throughout the 10K course to alert the 60,000 competitors what they are in for as they run from Lenox Square to Piedmont Park.

And 56-year-old Luis Garcia has strung up two flags: one white and one red. Unable to work as a security officer, his cupboards are bare and he cannot afford his diabetes medication.