GRANT TOWNSHIP — After restricting vehicle usage of the Clark Mine road for several months due to heavy traffic, The Nature Conservancy on Nov. 1 opened the gates, which will remain open throughout the deer hunting and snowmobile seasons. Regular firearm deer hunting season annually begins ...

The early morning sky was painted across the horizon line with a soft shade of orange I’d seen in push-up sherbet confections or the bands along the lower sides of autumn brook trout. Above the band of orange was a layer of almost white, trending to light blue and then darkening ...

Birds in North America will no longer be named after people, the American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday. Next year, the organization will begin to rename around 80 species found in the U.S. and Canada. “There is power in a name, and some English bird names have associations ...

HOUGHTON — Closed since the Father’s Day Flood five years ago, the Department of Natural Resources snowmobile trail is scheduled to be open by the start of December. Only some minor work remains on the project, which spans about seven miles, said Ron Yesney, Upper Peninsula trails ...

I’ve been reminded over the past few weeks of days I spent in California while attending college and graduate school. While I loved those years that I lived out there, there certainly were times when the sprawling city and its noise and people, people, people became too much for me. On ...

“Trumpets sound and I hear thunder boom, every time that you walk in the room.” – Jackie DeShannon There’s a sense or a presence – a frequency or vibration – that most of us can feel when we walk into a room – good, bad or otherwise. We can tell whether the vibes are cool or ...