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Editorial

There is more to hunter safety than gun safety

Hunting season may only last a little over two weeks but many people count down the days all year until they can break out their hunter orange clothes. While we are just a week into the 2024 Michigan firearm deer hunting season, unfortuantely it hasn’t been all bucks and beers for multiple ...

Get off that couch, get outside and hunt

Not to discount the importance of tradition, but hunting means so much more to Northeast Michigan than that alone. Hunting matters to Northeast Michigan’s economy, generating some $140 million in economic activity here every year as hunters buy licenses, gear, and food and out-of-towners ...

This week is Fraud Awareness Week

International Fraud Awareness Week is November 17 – 23, 2024, and the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services is reminding consumers to protect their personal and financial information from fraudsters and criminals. Consumers who suspect they have fallen victim to fraud should ...

Time to get flu, COVID-19 and RSV vaccinations

Planning to gather for Thanksgiving with family and friends? Both the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions are playing that day, so there’s an extra incentive to settle down with a crowd post-meal to relax and let everything digest. Knowing that people will be coming together for the ...

Crash Responder Safety Week a key memorial

Every few seconds, a traffic incident responder puts his or her life on the line to aid crash victims and to safely and quickly clear crashes as well as other traffic incidents that could otherwise result in a secondary crash. Every year traffic incident responders are killed in the line of ...

DNR has vacancies on various advisory boards

Wolves. Deer herd management. Invasive species. Trail access. Those are just a few of the difficult and sometimes controversial issues that Michigan Department of Natural Resources staff must deal with in the Upper Peninsula. To its credit, the agency doesn’t try to isolate itself from the ...