The groundhog is a member of the squirrel family and related to chipmunks and prairie dogs. It's also known as a woodchuck, a whistle pig — or in the parlance of Pennsylvania Dutch, a language with ...

Groundhog Day may be one of the weirder American holidays. How did it come to be? Here is the origin story of Punxsutawney Phil and his predictions.

Groundhog Day has been observed on Feb. 2. The longstanding tradition calls for groundhogs to tell us if spring is near.

Let's celebrate Groundhog Day, in all its bizarre, quirky strangeness. Let it remind us that we have not subdued nature, but merely made ourselves more comfortable in its domain.

Alabama's weekend forecast looks mostly clear, but warmer than normal. Rain creeps back into Check the video forecast for the latest. This weekend will feel great! The National Weather Service records ...

Punxsutawney Phil isn't the only animal used to signal the end of winter weather. States all over the country have their own ...

Feb. 2 might be the day we celebrate Groundhog Day and the mid-point of winter, but 109 years ago in Seattle, Punxsutawney Phil’s prognostication of the balance of winter was the last thing on ...