Sammie Clark, beaver researcher with Urban Rivers joined WGN’s Evening News at 6 p.m. Tuesday to discuss the contest.

A large beaver spotted in Bubbly Creek on the southwest branch of the Chicago River has sparked a citywide naming effort after a viral Reddit post from the nonprofit Urban Rivers. Conservationists say ...

A beaver with a big, possibly pregnant belly, living along the Chicago River, has gone viral on social media. Now, Chicago-based environmental non-profit, Urban Rivers, wants your help to name it.

Divers in Florida’s Steinhatchee River stumbled upon hundreds of pristine fossils from an obscure Ice Age period, including ...

Hurricanes are battering the US coastline. Megadroughts have parched the south-west. The Arctic circle is burning. Yet North ...

Vermont’s own Johannes von Trapp, the youngest member of the famous Trapp Family Singers, is an American hunter.

Republicans are weighing billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, threatening health care coverage for some of the 80 million U.S. adults and children enrolled in the safety net program.

Highland sailor Bob Baxter sailed the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes for half a century. People told him he should ...

The Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho have long fought for water sovereignty on the Wind River Indian Reservation, but their effort is being challenged by federal legislation and a changing water ...