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Backpacker’s 50 year history is rich with riveting storytelling. We tasked our editors with picking their all-time favorite stories.

Authorities continue to search for an inmate who escaped from the Prado Conservation Camp in Chino.

The Chicago Opera Theater’s production of “Albert Herring” is alternately amusing and heartbreaking. To mark an early celebration of its 50th anniversary season, the ever-adventurous company has welcomed acclaimed British conductor Dame Jane Glover (DBE).

With changing seasons, Trail Runner staff shares their most essential gear, tech, and media finds last month

Take a walk in another hiker’s boots in these insightful pieces.

A missing botanist and an apparently murdered schoolteacher. Seven witnesses, suspects among them.  A mysterious tale awaits audiences of “In a Grove,” an opera by Christopher Cerrone with a libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann, which will make its Midwest premiere in the Ryan Opera Theater on Thursday. The opera is presented by the Northwestern University Opera...

Prepare your mind and body ready to fend for yourself in the backcountry.

A Nineveh man is going to jail for failing to provide information about where he was living to authorities as is required of a convicted sex offender.

A Nineveh man is going to jail for failing to provide information about where he was living to authorities as is required of a convicted sex offender.

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I never considered myself to be handicapped until recently, after listening to a podcast on disability theory. After all, I wasn’t in a...