Summer days are longer, and your time outside naturally follows suit. As the sun dips lower, a little light can make your backyard patio feel like an evening escape. The right glow can brighten your ...

When 120 mph winds and torrential rains pounded the Gulf of Mexico in August 1915, more than 60 people took refuge inside the Bolivar Lighthouse. Now barn owls can escape the Texas sun by entering the ...

MOUNT PLEASANT — It’s not every day that you’ll find a “working” lighthouse far from water, but that’s exactly what Connie and Larry Perfetto have in their Mount Pleasant backyard. As a guy who likes ...

GHENT, N.Y. — Until Saturday morning I hadn’t given a lot of thought to lighthouses. That makes sense because I live nowhere near an ocean. And our property in Columbia County is severely landlocked.

BEAVER BAY, Minn. — In 1990, elite runner Jane Welzel won Grandma’s Marathon, the 26.2-mile race along the North Shore between Two Harbors in Duluth. It was her first time on the course. A decade ...

On Nov. 30, about 40 people gathered at the Crow’s Nest restaurant to raise funds for O’Neill Sea Odyssey and flip the switch that would illuminate the lights that had been strung on the Walton ...