Montana and several other states in the U.S. may be able to see the northern lights for a second night in a row on Monday, June 2, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Those vacation planners are indebted to Rand McNally. The Chicago area-based publisher pioneered road maps that were distributed at gas stations, beginning with Gulf Oil, in 1920. From time to ...

Little did he know that storm would kickstart his career as a world-wide storm chaser. “I had a ruler, a pencil and a Rand McNally map,” Piotrowski says. “Back then a bell would chime over the radio ...