The fish camp at Lake Kickapoo has opened for business under new ownership. Jacob and Lauren Puckett of Wichita Falls are owners and operators of the camp that has been a fixture at the lake for ...

At every girls camp, there’s a matriarchal figure who, typically, has been around the longest and seen girls come and go over the decades, but few camps can lay claim to having a 101-year-old woman at ...

Some of my life’s highest highs have come from travel experiences - kayaking the Apostle Islands, hiking to Macchu Picchu, chasing waterfalls in North Carolina, hiking the Wailea Ridge on Maui. But as ...

During the past few years a deadly fungus has raced through cave-dwelling bat populations. White nose syndrome has become such a concern that the Mississippi Valley Conservancy decided to buy the ...

LEROY — Sunlight streamed through tall trees and onto the ground, birds chirped and fluttered about, and wind gently rustled through the bushes and undergrowth Thursday morning in West Park. The park, ...

ABOVE: Sam Ihm, planning director for the Champaign County Forest Preserve District, stands Thursday at the junction where the finished and unfinished parts of the Kickapoo Rail Trail join up west of ...