Goetze: Our region’s woodpeckers may be praised for some things while also maligned for perceived or actual damage caused.

Smallmouth bass and salmon/trout on the lakefront as well as the quintessential spring signs (lilacs blooming, Mother's Day, near the May full moon) lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report ...

Once it danced 10 feet across the waves on its tail. A second later it flashed toward the canoe ... We stuck with it all that long, hot afternoon, but we didn’t see a single salmon. Anglers in boats ...

Honestly, despite this strong slate of contestants, the aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) has got to win the Ugly Mom ...

It is a ground feeding bird often seen rooting up leaf litter looking for grubs and worms ... It often sings with its stiff tail held almost vertically in the air. It builds a ball shaped nest ...

While he passed away at the relatively early age of 68, the billionaire media tycoon and (formerly) Australia’s most influential man experienced more in a single year of his life ... Needless to say, ...

A third, very important task is to treat my lawn with a grub killer. If you have dead, bare patches, the likely culprits are the grubs of Japanese beetles. The adults lay their eggs in lawn turf ...

There are 21 snake species that are native to Pennsylvania, and three of them are venomous. The copperhead reaches an average ...

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...

Four people died when a small, single-engine plane crashed in Trilla, Illinois, on Saturday morning. The plane departed from Menomonie, Wisconsin, and went down at around 10:15 a.m, according to ...