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Outdoors North: Out of the shade and into the warmth

“Autumn this year is gonna break my heart, the leaves start falling and the feeling starts,” — Steve Forbert The rain seemed undecided, not sure whether it felt like delivering itself to the earth below or not. Maybe the rain has lazy days too? Nothing more than a faint mist was ...

DNR weekly fishing report

Little Bay de Noc: Anglers reported fair to good walleye fishing over the past week. Anglers used sonar to locate fish and cast minnow-profile baits. Presentations varied from erratic reaction-style lures to slow-moving live bait, including nightcrawlers on crawler harnesses or jigs. Anglers ...

What's Flying: Time to enjoy the end of summer

“Autumn…The year’s last, loveliest smile.” – John Howards Bryant This month has reinvigorated the “start of autumn” discussion with the extremely variable weather and the uptick in the number of maple trees showing pronounced changes in color for the season. The prolonged drought across much of the western Upper Peninsula continues to be reflected in wilting wildflowers, brown grass, and trees showing a variety of seasonal color change from yellow treetops to maples nearly have changed over with plenty of crimson branches. The lack of water available in some spots to ...

Urology Pearls: A cancer with a mustache

Breaking News from August 19, 2026, The New York Times: “A New mRNA Vaccine Could Prevent Skin Cancer From Returning.” A vaccine? For cancer? For melanoma — the deadliest form of skin cancer? How can this even work? To explain it to myself, and to you, I turned to what I know about ...