BLOOMINGTON — A week of spring-like temperatures convinced Sebastian Piacentino that the Polar Plunge at Miller Park Lake would be a breeze. Mother Nature had other plans. “I didn’t expect it to be ...

A fresh-fallen snow adds to the ambience of the white lights that adorn the house and lawn of this residence on Albert Street in Courtdale.

Across the Dolomites and the Apennines, the most beautiful snowy villages in Italy are all snow‑dusted bell towers, olde worlde stone lanes and glistening rooftops. Church bells drift through crisp ...