When you stand atop the main bluff – a full 150 feet above the river – you’re treated to panoramic views that stretch for miles across the Illinois River Valley, the kind of vista that makes you ...

Voters are heading to the polls Tuesday to weigh in on critical races electing governors, mayors and more as observers look for clues about the national mood heading into next year’s midterms.

The waterway cuts through a tangled and tragic past in southeastern Colorado that still echoes Western expansion, Indigenous displacement.

The two floatplanes circled beneath low clouds before landing on an alpine lake, deep in the mountains west of Anchorage.

A federal judge told the U.S. Forest Service that a plan to kill rainbow trout and replace them with native Yellowstone cutthroat trout along a 45-mile stretch of waterways in the Absaroka-Beartooth ...

Two centuries after New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton opened the Erie Canal with a triumphant boat trip from Buffalo to New York City, a ...

More than any other historical event, the opening of the Erie Canal, on Oct. 26, 1825, set Chicago on the path to becoming ...

From old bear dens to grain silos, the unsavory pasts of industrial sites is what makes their renewal profound.

A 13-year-old boy died Saturday from a fall near Brewer Bluff at the Buffalo National River, according to a Facebook post from the Buffalo National River. The Searcy County sheriff's office was ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Arapahoe School students gather around a harvested buffalo at the Northern Arapaho buffalo site on ...

DALLAS — The greatest thing about the annual State Fair of Texas is that you can obtain just about anything your imagination can conjure. Want a stick of bacon slathered in chocolate? A taco filled ...