The primary draws to southern Illinois are the outdoor recreation activities in Shawnee National Forest, including hiking, cycling, rock climbing and ziplining, as well as vineyards and wine trails.

A bit strapped for cash? Louisville offers lots of budget-friendly attractions if you know where to look. Here are 10 things ...

Tucked away in the embrace of the Shawnee National Forest sits Makanda, Illinois – a pocket-sized paradise that might be the Midwest’s best-kept secret.

The emergency spillway area is a designated fossil collection zone where visitors can hunt for and keep fossils of brachiopods, trilobites, and other marine creatures that called this area home about ...

As athletics director at Appalachian State, Doug Gillin has spent part of the last week trying to help some of his student-athletes find housing after flooding caused by Hurricane Helene displaced ...

A Catskills hiker injured their ankle on June 29, three miles from the trailhead in Dry Brook Ridge Wild Forest. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation forest rangers and fire ...

Shawnee State University in Portsmouth has accepted an invitation to join the Mountain East Conference as the league's 12th school. Right now, the school is getting ready for the change.

All categories of crime are down over the previous year in the Kansas Bureau of Investigation's latest report.

The forest fire that burned thousands of acres of pinelands in Ocean County is now 75% contained, authorities said Monday.

Are fireworks legal in my state? See how laws differ across the U.S. Consumer fireworks are available in most states, but others have stricter rules, and one even has an outright ban on them.

UPDATE: Lake Marcia at High Point State Park will reopen for swimming on July 2, the state Department of Environmental Protection said Tuesday afternoon.