A text lands on Wednesday afternoon: Cousins are driving in for the Nebraska Cornhuskers’ home game Saturday, and they need a bed for two nights. The guest room gets a fresh set of sheets and a fast pass with the vacuum. The bathroom gets whatever time is left over. These are the things Nebraskans should…
Try standing at Triple Divide Peak in Glacier National Park during a rainstorm. The same cloudburst can end up in the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, or Hudson Bay, depending on where each drop lands. The Divide splits more than rainwater. These are the Montana habits that place someone east or west of the Divide….
Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has closed 207 restaurants in the United States since January 2025. Americans everywhere have watched their favorite chains go through similar bankruptcies, closures, and sudden shutdowns. These are the restaurant chains many Kentuckians feel aren’t what they used to be. Long John Silver’s Long John Silver’s opened its first restaurant on…
Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources says hunting adds about $2.5 billion to the state’s economy every year. The agency credits gun season with 88% of that total. A handful of Wisconsin businesses build their whole year around that small hunting stretch, while many others just enjoy the bump. These are the Wisconsin businesses that live…
New Hampshire has gained a net 145,648 Massachusetts residents since 2005, according to Census migration data analyzed by the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy. These are the reasons Bay Staters keep crossing into New Hampshire, and why so many of them end up staying for good. Note: This is general information, not tax or…
A storm chaser parked along a Texas Panhandle farm road can watch cumulus towers rise and collapse, again and again. Then a tower holds. Hours later, that kind of storm can produce a tornado strong enough for an EF3 rating from the National Weather Service. A tornado picked up that same rating in Perryton, Texas,…
A shuttered Montgomery supermarket reopened in January as Piggly Wiggly Food For Less, running every price off a set rule instead of a weekly sale. That rule doesn’t travel. These are the ways one Piggly Wiggly isn’t the same as the next in Alabama. 1. Store Ownership Piggly Wiggly’s stores don’t answer to one company….
Parke County calls its Covered Bridge Festival Indiana’s largest, and this year the ten-day event opens its gates on October 9. It’s a homecoming of sorts. Every fall the festival pulls Hoosiers back from wherever they moved to, the same people who packed up for other states and never quite let go of home. These…
When you’re squeezing a Giant Food stop into a busy day, the deli can feel like one more thing between you and getting home. The employee helping you often has a busy day, too. Once you understand a little more about their side of the counter, some of your frustrations may go away. These are…
Coborn’s opened its flagship Market & Table store in Plymouth on March 12, 2026, according to Bring Me the News, with three sit-down restaurants built right into the grocery aisles. That’s a reason to stop in. But saving money sometimes starts before you get there. If your usual Coborn’s routine is to grab a cart…
