Adirondack birding experts debate which bird call defines summer. Red-eyed vireo, common loon, and hermit thrush compete for ...

Members of the Prairie Island Indian Community is welcoming the United States new national bird with a sense of pride, and hope for unity. (AP video: Mark Vancleave) ...

The discovery of grassland-loving dickcissels on the site of Sterling Bay's stalled megadevelopment suggests the value of preserving open land.

Trails unique to the Ozarks let hikers wander through acres of meadows and prairie, with grasses and wildflowers waving in ...

I headed up to Garland to see for myself what had happened to the 200-acre Spring Creek Forest Preserve. Some fellow volunteers were there, as were representatives from Dallas County. The city of ...

Angela Bauer has been a copy editor and lifestyles editor for the Journal-Courier since July 2012. The Evansville, Indiana, native grew up in Paducah, Kentucky, and interned with the Paducah Sun.

After leading music programs for 22 years at Rich Township high school, Phillip Crews plans to spend more time behind the drum kit.

Billie Eilish’s anthem of dark optimism, “Birds Of A Feather” hit streaming platforms on May 17, 2024, from her third studio album, Hit Me Hard And Soft. This week, it still has a place in Billboard’s ...

Your government Flossmoor Public Art Commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 14, in village hall, 2800 Flossmoor Road.

Many Native Americans are marking ceremonies like graduations with bald eagle feathers, a form of reverence for the bird they have always held sacred as a messenger to the Creator.

The weekend brings Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Alpine Kiwanis Brat Days and Friday Night Flix, along with fundraisers, ...

Glacial Ridge would become another example of the human capacity to transform landscapes, only this time it would be from ...