Little Bay de Noc: Walleye fishing throughout the bay was good. Anglers reported catching fishing out of Kipling, “black bottom”, the mouth of the Escanaba River, south of Aronson Island, and areas from the Ford River to No See-um Creek. A lot of anglers were casting artificial snap jig ...

“Bird on the horizon, sitting on a fence. He’s singing his song for me at his own expense,” – Bob Dylan A year or so ago, I was walking down our driveway to the mailbox when I heard a male house wren singing from a thick grove of trees across the county road. It’s one of those ...

MARQUETTE — Mined lands can have what author Pete Kero called a “full second life.” That’s a major message of his new book, published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press. Kero, a Negaunee native and environmental engineer based in Hibbing, Minnesota with Barr Engineering Co., ...

“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first ...

“Pick up a flat rock, skip it across Green River,” – John Fogerty It wasn’t one of the “dog days” of summer, it was one of those “dog is under the porch because it’s too darned hot to be anywhere else” days. I was sitting at a desolate junction. It was a place where the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — There could be a new contender for heaviest animal to ever live. While today’s blue whale has long held the title, scientists have dug up fossils from an ancient giant that could tip the scales. Researchers described the species — named Perucetus colossus, or “the ...