Paintsville Lake State Park stretches across Johnson and Morgan counties like a well-kept secret, its 1,140-acre lake reflecting the surrounding Appalachian mountains with mirror-like precision.

If you’re lucky (or unlucky, depending on your perspective), you might spot a timber rattlesnake basking on a sun-warmed rock – one of Minnesota’s few venomous snakes and a protected species in the ...

The clever, adaptable urban "trash panda" may be evolving a shorter snout — a key physical trait of pets and other ...