LANSING — The Michigan State Senate passed Senate Bills 276 and 277, Tuesday which includes increases to hunting and fishing license fees. The vote was 23-13, and one of the most vocal of the 13 "no votes" was Senator Ed McBroom, R-Vulcan, who had a lot to say in his opposition to the bills. ...

“Summertime and the living is easy, fishing are jumping and the cotton is high,” – Dubose Heyward, George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin Over the past few days, autumn has begun to unfurl its final vestiges of colors and kick before its tattered curtain is torn away, and November comes down ...

“Scarecrow on a wooden cross, blackbird in the barn,” – John Mellencamp The first sound I heard after I slipped outside the back door that morning was the croaking squawk of an old raven. He sounded upset about the cold and the snow. I couldn’t blame him. It wasn’t even mid-October ...

ROCKLAND: The Ontonagon County Conservation District (OCCD) regular monthly meeting was held on Oct. at the Rockland Twp Hall. According to a OCCD press release the "Good News” at the meeting was that Michigan finally passed the 2026 Budget and Gov. Whitmer signed the appropriations act. ...

MARQUETTE — Michigan Department of Natural Resources officials issued a permit Friday morning allowing a partially sight-impaired wild fawn to be placed at a facility where native, live animals are kept for educational purposes. Thursday afternoon, the facility submitted an official request ...

The weekly fishing report for the Upper Peninsula, released by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Ontonagon River: Angling efforts on the river were extremely low over the past week. Reports suggested that few fish were caught. The floating docks in the Ontonagon Marina have been ...