For many people vacationing in the lake-filled woods of Northern Wisconsin, the haunting cry of the loon is the sound of summer. About 4,000 of the black-and white birds nest in the state by May or ...

The Mallard Creek girls’ basketball team is moving on. The Mavericks surged past Mt. Tabor, blowing out the Winston-Salem school in the second half in an 80-45 win on Friday night — and their 18th ...

This isn’t the first time that Mallard Creek High School’s girls’ basketball team has started No. 1 in The Charlotte Observer’s Sweet 16 girls basketball poll. But with four starters back, plus an all ...

So, too, is seeing the regal bird floating along a lake’s surface, sometimes with a small, fluffy brown chick on its back. But when Elaina Lomery visited a lake in Oneida County to check on a chick a ...