David Roediger is a historian of race and class in the United States, and a professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas. He’s the author of ...

Dan Gearino covers the business and policy of renewable energy and utilities, often with an emphasis on the midwestern United ...

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew accused the state Republicans of throwing a "timber tantrum" over the effects of Canadian wildfires.

A Michigan distillery and university scientists are working to revive a long-lost variety of rye grain recovered from a ...

Wildfire smoke from Canada has blanketed the Upper Midwestern and Northeastern United States, including New England. The ...

The pugnacious Illinois governor, who is shielding Texas lawmakers avoiding a vote on partisan redistricting efforts at home, ...

A new study by Michigan State University found that butterflies have been decreasing rapidly in the Midwest, after ...

Out of the 136 species of butterflies’ populations studied, not a single one increased over the past 3 decades.

While analyzing the mountains of data harvested from three decades of butterfly counting in the Midwest, a Michigan State ...

Imagine a prairie. How many plant species do you see? Maybe you're picturing yellow coneflowers, some little bluestem, perhaps a few asters. But plant ecologists at the University of Illinois ...

Why It Matters The widespread threat of severe thunderstorms underscored the growing frequency and intensity of extreme weather across the eastern and midwestern United States.

A recent ranking of the best campgrounds found in the Midwestern United States highlighted a southern Illinois spot as one of the most scenic getaways in the region.