Who among us has not sat by a river to contemplate its mysteries? Well then. Are rivers alive? The great British nature writer Robert Macfarlane (“Underland,” “Mountains of the Mind ...

“Is a River Alive?,” the new book by Robert Macfarlane, is gorgeously written but also windy and sentimental. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...

FORT FRANCES – Residents of Fort Frances, Atikokan, and Rainy River are waking up to a chilly morning under quiet skies. But the weather won’t stay still for long — a gusty westerly wind is expected ...

HIGHWAY 299: Long-term roadway excavation will be underway from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Aug. 1, from 4 miles to 5 miles east of Burnt Ranch. One-way traffic control will be in effect with 10-min ...

“Rusty” is a sweet, affectionate old boy who absolutely loves attention. He’s also quite the talker and won’t hesitate to let you know when he’s… ...

There is still time to get your team together to compete in a bocce ball, golf and bowling triathlon on Saturday, June 7, beginning at 9 a.m. with the winning team to receive Trinity Triathlon ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — An active pattern brings several chances for rain across the region throughout the week. A straight west-to-east upper-level flow, known as zonal flow, brings ...

Rutger Bregman's latest book "makes profound change look easy," said Isabel Berwick in Financial Times. The Dutch author of the best-seller Humankind: A Hopeful History has set his sights on today ...

Wildfires raging across western Canada have contributed to smoky days with no end in sight in the Rainy River District. Residents have dealt with smoky, hazy days for most of a week as the fallout ...

Review: Is a River Alive? – Robert Macfarlane (Penguin Random House) He has won many kinds of prizes for his books, so many that he has been spoken of as a likely Nobel Prize winner several ...

Robert Macfarlane is not easy to pin down ... and starting point a question his young son once put to him, “Is a River Alive?” If we can talk of rivers dying (and we do), then isn ...

Robert Macfarlane was out in the mountains climbing ... Macfarlane and I spoke recently about “Is a River Alive?” and I hope you’ll take a minute to read our conversation (or, uh, maybe ...