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

This winter, with record snow in New Orleans and drought and destructive wildfires in Southern California, has not been normal.

Waite Park is a town of 8,341 people located adjacent to St. Cloud in Central Minnesota. Waite Park was named for Henry Chester Waite who was a farm owner and State Representative. A post office was ...