London banker John Abel Smith bought the land in 1840 after being part of the Rampside Hall Estate, owned by the Reverend John Hutchinson, for many years. He had ambitious aims to run a ferry service ...

Chippewa Moraine State Recreation Area isn’t just a park. It’s a reminder of the raw beauty of our natural world, a testament ...

Lovers of winter, unite! Illinois is home to 1500 square miles of pristine Lake Michigan in all its frozen glory.

Why stop at Gulf of America? Our maps are full of foreign names and languages — including a Palm Beach resort with a Spanish ...

A lobe of the Polar Vortex is going to swing through Ontario just north of Michigan. The upper-air forecast gives us an easy ...

Lakes Country Service Cooperative currently has an 11-member board with two superintendents from West Central Minnesota ...

The alleged Lake Michigan triangle stretches from Manitowoc, Wisconsin, to Ludington, Michigan, then to Benton Harbor, ...

The reason becomes evident when you compare maps. For example, January 1994 was brutally cold east of the Rocky Mountains ...

A hotspot that now lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was once under the Great Lakes, and may explain why they formed ...

The reason becomes evident when you compare maps. For example, January 1994 was brutally cold east of the Rocky Mountains ... That warming trend helps set up a remarkable situation in the Great Lakes ...

The heaviest snowfall in a decade is on its way to Kansas and Missouri, part of a major winter storm stretching 1,300 miles ...

While we are starting January with frigid conditions across the Prairies, the focus of the coldest weather will quickly shift ...