Combining Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern into the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S. would create a 52,215-mile ...

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.

Millions of Americans are under weather advisories this week. See which major cities have heat, flood or storm advisories.

As Republicans move to redraw legislative maps in red states to pad their narrow House majority in Washington, some Democrats ...

For those of you in the sticky Ohio Valley, Appalachians and Mid-Atlantic, let’s use 65 degree dew points as a humidity level ...

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Death Valley is forecast to see heat index values peak at 101 Friday—swaths of the country are bracing for even warmer ...

In 1850, a number of free Black abolitionists began settling in the territorial city of St. Paul and helped with the freedom ...

RAGBRAI, in its 52nd year, will cross into Minnesota for the first time. The short detour adds mileage to an unusually short ...

U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, a Texas Democrat who represents a slice of the Rio Grande Valley along the border with Mexico, ...

Interstates get a bad rap. Everybody praises traveling the backroads, or along those blue lined roads, but when you want to ...