MARQUETTE — An outdoors enthusiast who enjoys running, hiking and kayaking, NMU Assistant Professor of Education Kristen White said that her first four years residing in Marquette have been nothing short of wonderful. “When I lived in the Detroit metropolitan area, I had become ...

ISLE ROYALE — Fisheries researchers go to great lengths, or sometimes deep waters, to seek answers to their questions. Recently, an interdisciplinary team of scientists aboard the Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ research vessel Lake Char discovered the deepest occurrence of lake ...

“Pappy ain’t smart, he ain’t good at quizzin’, but one thing he knows: how to keep ma hizzin’,” – Roger Miller The lush and green countryside flashed past as I watched out the window. I was noticing farms big and small, little towns and brown or green-gray rivers that twisted ...

MARQUETTE — Birds need feathers, of course, but humans can make use of them as well. MooseWood Nature Center hosted a workshop for kids on Saturday in which they could use “feather pens” for art. MooseWood board member Erik Johnson led the event. Johnson called the feather pen ...

Seven score and 19 years ago this week, three days of tremendous bloodletting, death and destruction occurred at a place where 10 roads intersected on the bucolic, green landscape of southern Pennsylvania, a place called Gettysburg. Likely then as now, the summery skies over those beautiful, ...

Upper Peninsula Marquette: Fishing picked up and anglers were catching fish in the Marquette area. Lake trout were reported being caught offshore near the Chocolay River through Shot Point. Anglers were catching some coho near Shot Point in about 40 to 50 feet of water. White Rocks was a ...