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 ...

LANSING — You’re wrong if you think the lowly earthworm has little to do with the health of Michigan’s hardwood forests. To the contrary, “exotic” — non-native — earthworms can have “widespread and complex effects” on individual trees and overall forest health, according to ...

The sky was bright blue and sunny with a few clouds floating by above us. I felt happy to be outside anywhere, feeling numb with my senses dulled by the blur, stress and anxieties of the holidays. But the place my boots would take me today was far better than just anywhere outside. My ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third and final installment of an in-depth look at the recently concluded firearm deer season and discussions and debates that have followed it regarding the Michigan deer herd. Rates of participation for deer hunting generally increased among generations until ...

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the new year.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson A little bit of winter has finally come to the Upper Peninsula to start the new year as there are signs of January with the temperatures begin to drop and a little snow has begun to appear. ...