QUESTION: What Upper Peninsula community is noted for their annual Humongous Fungus Fest? ANSWER: Crystal Falls. The annual festival is dedicated to the discovery of a giant fungus in a nearby forest in 1992. An Armillaria bulbosa, covers more than 30 acres and has an estimated mass of 100 tons.
HANCOCK — Volunteers repotted thousands of native plant seedlings at the Keweenaw Land Trust headquarters for Earth Day. The plants come from Brian Black, a faculty member at Bay College who grows native plants in his greenhouse for the local chapter of Wild Ones. Each year, he donates the ...
DETROIT — The NFL draft has taken the show on the road for a decade, giving cities around the country a chance to be in the spotlight. Detroit is on the clock. The Motor City, which was once one of the nation’s largest and most powerful cities, has bounced back from filing for ...
By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, April 24, the 115th day of 2024. There are 251 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 24, 1995, the final bomb linked to the Unabomber exploded inside the Sacramento, California, offices of a lobbying group for the wood ...
Marquette and vicinity: Today, sunny, with a high near 37. Northeast wind 10 to 15 mph. Tonight, clear, with a low around 26. East wind around 5 mph becoming south after midnight. Extended forecast: Thursday, sunny, with a high near 55. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southeast in the ...
By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers on Monday rejected a proposal aimed at cracking down on how some of the nation’s largest utilities spend customers’ money. California’s investor-owned utilities can’t use money from customers to pay for ...