Nearly 1,300 Joro spider sightings have popped up around Knoxville, from UT's campus to Ijams Nature Center. Experts say the golden orb-weavers are mostly harmless.

A decade-long fight to save 73 acres on Indian Lake Peninsula is finally becoming a public park with trails and forest.

A cool front already dropped Twin Cities highs into the 60s, but drought-stressed trees near St. Cloud could drop leaves early.