Paul Vriend's photo of a beaver swimming at Jackson Park leads the notes package from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

Nickelodeon launches Avatar Studios, a dedicated studio for expanding the Avatar: The Last Airbender universe, including The ...

State officials say a train derailment in rural Maine that spilled hundreds of gallons of fuel and hospitalized three workers was attributable to a beaver dam.

Experts call it incredibly difficult to document beavers in the wild. Could a team of Wisconsin Watch reporters succeed?

PHOTOS BY GARRY BRANDENBURG — Beaver chewed cottonwood tree bark and sapwood is now nothing but chips. Numerous cottonwoods adjacent to the Iowa River have been scarred by the gnawing of our ...

OTTER TAIL COUNTY— A trailer house was a total loss after a fire on Thursday, Jan. 30, near Otter Tail Lake. The three occupants in the house were able to escape without injury, according to an Otter ...

Some interesting waterfowl have spent at least part of the winter at the pond at Erwin Fishery Park and a nearby fenced lagoon at the back of the park. First Name ...

Below the spillway on the north side is a large paved area and fishing jetty. Restrooms accommodate wheelchairs. The small lake near the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge headquarters has an ...

The Royal Navy has been monitoring a Russian spy ship after it was spotted around UK waters earlier this week, the defence secretary has told MPs. John Healey said the vessel, Yantar, was used for ...

A Royal Navy attack submarine surfaced close to a Russian spy ship off the UK coast in an extraordinary warning to stop spying on British undersea cables, the defence secretary has revealed.