Patrick Durkin

If you’re reading this, you obviously survived June 13, the only Friday the 13th we’ll see in 2025. But don’t get too cocky. We’ll face three such unlucky Fridays in 2026, the maximum possible in a calendar year, according to TimeAndDate.com, an astronomy website. If you’re like me, you won’t see...

Roger Maes knows he’ll recognize his grandfather’s nearly century-old trophy buck whether it’s in online photo lineups, hanging in a Northwoods tavern, or fully restored and displayed at a giant hunting/fishing store. But the Madison, Wisconsin, resident hasn't seen the buck for over 30 years, not...

Matt Jefko of Wisconsin says he can’t sacrifice the time and money to hunt Western states, so he turns his stay-at-home hunts into hard-earned adventures whenever possible. But after this public-schools teacher arrowed a buck in southwestern Wisconsin’s Yellowstone Lake State Park in early November...

Fifty years after the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald sank with its 29-man crew on storm-tossed Lake Superior, shipwreck buffs and maritime archaeologists still debate what caused the tragedy on Nov. 10, 1975. Some claim the big ship capsized and sank. Others think it bottomed out after straying onto...