The cast-bronze statue of a Vietnam War-era solider carrying another soldier joins statues honoring veterans from World War ...

The Lincoln Public Library, 145 Old River Road, will host Xen's Critters Farm Animal Petting Zoo on Friday, July 18, from 2 to 3 p.m.

After months of waiting and building excitement, the giraffes at the Roosevelt Park Zoo finally have a new place to call home. Today, the zoo officially cut the ribbon for its new state-of-the-art ...

The F Street Neighborhood Church and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Architecture collaborated to renovate a ...

Wikimedia Commons/Francine Schroeder photo for Smithsonian Institution The 1950 Smokey Bear Rescue On May 9, 1950, ...

Mariners Trail, Point Beach State Forest, the Wisconsin Ice Age Trail and Woodland Dunes Nature Center make our list of great places to hike.

The Fourth of July flooding had an outsized effect not just on the Hill Country but also on rain-starved Texas cities like San Antonio and Austin.

A new herd of alpacas are now calling Lincoln Park Zoo their home as Chicago welcomes the species for the first time in 6 years.

CHICAGO — The Lincoln Park Zoo has introduced their new 6-year-old river otter named “Tucker.” He is a 6-year-old adult river otter who hails from Roosevelt Park Zoo in Minot, North Dakota.

Thousands of runners on Sunday morning participated in Lincoln Park Zoo’s 47th annual Run for the Zoo, a longstanding tradition that helps raise money for the zoo’s wildlife conservation efforts.

Visitors at Lincoln Park Zoo can often spot the meerkat on sentinel duty because they’ll be standing on their hind legs atop one of the tall mounds in their habitat.

If you’re planning a road trip through Illinois, you won’t want to miss some of the state’s most unique and quirky ...