Minnesota

There is an island in the Mississippi River that has unofficially become home to a number of tiny homes that have claimed it as their own.

How would you like to live in a Midwestern city, but have to go through Canadian customs every day? That's the reality for residents of a Minnesota town.

It's nice to have a house and a backyard, but it's important to understand that it's only yours if a mama bear and her cubs haven't laid claim to it like happened to a Midwestern family recently.

This could have and probably should have been tragic. A suspected impaired driver ran into a truck and it almost immediately explodes, but all miraculously survive. This entire incident was captured by a traffic camera.

It's certainly not uncommon, but still uplifting when you can witness young kids being given something that many of us cherished from our childhood. It's a Midwest brother and sister learning that they now have the puppy they always wanted.

It's sad news to pass along from a Midwestern zoo that has an ironic twist. A male tiger just died of cardiac failure while undergoing a procedure. His name was Putin.

What do you do if you're a bear and you find a beaver dam? Answer: anything you want including trying to demolish it if a Midwestern trail cam is to be believed.

If you're dreaming of a white Christmas, you're going to have to travel some miles to find it.

If you've lived in the Midwest for any length of time, you know that sometimes weird things just happen. That motto proved true once again as a new video share shows that fun time when a Midwest guy took his dog out to the park and it ended up being a play date with a deer named Spike.

When you're driving down a midwestern highway, you never know what might be waiting around the next corner. A new video share proves that point as a driver came upon a huge black wolf blocking the roadway and she wasn't alone.