KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Echo Valley Winter Sports Park in Kalamazoo is open for the season! The park welcomed its first visitors on New Year's Day. The park has been undergoing renovations at the lodge and ...

If you were planning a trip to Lake Echo this week, health officials are urging you to stay on dry land. The Florida Department of Health in Polk County (DOH-Polk) issued an advisory on December 29 ...

MILTONA — Shortly before 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 28, a house fire was reported at a residence on the south side of Lake Miltona. At 3:44 p.m., the Douglas County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call ...

PINE RIVER — When Kari Crimmins first got her real estate license, she didn't know it would lead her to become president of the Pine River Chamber board. Then again, she actually didn't know it would ...

After a year of living out of her car in San Jose’s Columbus Park, where rats had so overrun the city’s largest homeless encampment that residents gave them names, Tami Davis wasn’t expecting to be ...

The Los Angeles Poverty Department, considered the first performance group in the nation made up principally of homeless people and the first arts program of any kind for homeless people in LA, is ...

For five months, Susan Ercolino says she was afraid to close her eyes. Night after night, she stayed half awake in and around MacArthur Park — flinching at footsteps, jolting at the sound of voices, ...

Hilary Pollack is the deputy editor at Eater. She has more than 15 years of experience in culture journalism and food media and is always down to order for the table. In our Dining Reports, we share a ...

It's the week before Christmas and Santa Claus is sitting at the end of the counter at The Echo Restaurant in Hyde Park. Customers approach Santa, asking questions about where he works, aside from the ...

LANSING — Three days before Christmas, the camp in a wooded lot on the city's north side that at times has had 50 or more people living there was largely empty. Abandoned wooden pallets, heaps of ...

Los Angeles’ dire need for more park space is well-documented. Only 62% of Los Angeles residents live within a 10-minute walk to a park, compared with 100% in San Francisco. The city further outscores ...

A resident was left homeless and a cat was rescued after a fire sent heavy flames billowing from a house, causing extensive damage, in Lake Zurich early Saturday morning, fire officials said. The Lake ...