This is part one of a three-part column. Two toboggan slides stayed busy in February 1891 as people of all ages waited for a turn to glide down to the frozen Cedar River as a brass band performed near ...

When temperatures in mid-January plummeted and the snow started flying, Noel McCarthy indulged a childhood dream—he started building an igloo. Now, with help from his partner, Kimberly Bement, he’s ...

A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. It happened in ...