For the third year in a row, extreme drought conditions in the Midwest are drawing down water levels on the Mississippi River.

Jeremy Beal, a boat builder and lobsterman, had a simple strategy: “Point it and punch it!” His 14-year-old daughter took it from there. By Steven Kurutz Reporting from Long Island ...

Nine adults were aboard the boat when it hit a break wall at high speed and broke into pieces near Harbor One Marina in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, according to Joey Kellems, lead command center ...

Lauck, a history and political science professor at the University of South Dakota, effectively invented the field of Midwest studies — though, being Midwestern himself, he is too modest to say so.

D.C. may hit a new record-high temperature on Wednesday. Extreme heat is gripping the Midwest before moving into the Northeast. Chicago is in the center of an excessive heat warning that stretches ...

A heat dome is bringing high temperatures to much of the Midwest this week and they’re being worsened by humidity that is, at least in part, caused by moisture being released from crops—or ...

Up to 25 restaurants owned by major fast food franchisee EYM Chicken have shut in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, according to reports. The closure of several locations in Wisconsin will lead ...

And they’d have a great view. The Sox and developer Related Midwest brought their flashy renderings of a potential new South Loop stadium partially to life this week, creating a baseball diamond ...

NEW YORK, Aug 22 (Reuters) - A series of refinery outages in the U.S. Midwest caused regional gasoline prices to spike to more than 20% above the national average from July 22 to Aug. 5 during the ...

Hot weather—along with extreme humidity levels that are usually associated more with the sultry U.S. Southeast—has enveloped much of the Midwest and will move into the mid-Atlantic states over ...