LANSING — The founder of a company that uses drones to recover deer carcasses that hunters can’t find says Michigan’s prohibition of the practice violates his First Amendment rights. A lawsuit filed by Mike Yoder questions one of the core principles of hunting and fishing in the United ...

As the hours, days, weeks and months roll past and into the rearview mirror, I think there is a tendency to take for granted the daily trappings of living. Despite my best efforts to remain present, aware and grateful each day, I can see myself maybe like a sparrow that gets used to seed ...

Planning a trip this winter? Yes, it’s tempting to look for sunny spots where you can lie on a beach or play golf. But some of my favorite winter vacations have been to northerly destinations at their coldest, darkest times of year. I don’t ski, so I’m not looking for powder. But I have ...

“It’s been a long time since we stood beside the water, the sun going down, was burning peaceful and slow,” – Steve Forbert There is a sense that I sometimes get, especially while walking in the woods along an old, sandy two-track road or a grass-grown-over abandoned railroad line or ...

MARQUETTE — The year fisheries biologist George Madison began his career with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, a brand-new Ford F-150 pickup truck cost $8,373, the stage musical “Phantom of the Opera” debuted in London and the Soviet nuclear reactor in Chernobyl ...

I return once again to this messy sanctuary of countless books and musical instruments, a soft couch and a sturdy wooden rocking chair. Outside my window, the night is cold enough to crack. It’s one of those times when walking on certain floors in the house I can feel the cold reach up ...