MARQUETTE — Rising temperatures and changing environmental conditions in the Great Lakes are contributing to harmful algal blooms, and new research suggests that the nearshore regions of Lake Superior could indicate climate change’s effects on the region’s ecosystem. The study, in the ...
I recall the small, dilapidated shack standing broken and falling apart there alongside the corroded railroad tracks. The beat-up structure was made of splintered wood and rusty nails, and had at one time served the railroad as a place to store things used in track maintenance. Between the ...
MARQUETTE — Every fall for years, Deborah McCullough and her husband fished salmon from Western Michigan’s Betsie River. “It’s a little river, and it was shaded, and you knew there was going to be big salmon in the deep spot over there under the shade,” she said. But all that ...
It was in the very early morning hours when I slipped outside the back door to the yard to look at the “blood moon,” a full lunar eclipse which casts the moon’s face in a rusty red tint. Just a couple steps out there, I was disappointed to see the moon shrouded in a thick white woolen ...
LANSING — Lead line replacement, cleaning up contamination, increasing government transparency, and strengthening the state’s energy infrastructure are a few of the priorities represented in Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s proposed Fiscal Year 2026 budget. The Michigan Department of Environment, ...
The night was strange with wild winds swirling and twirling. I stood out there with rain falling on me. There was still more than three feet of snow on the ground. From behind the ghost-like clouds that were gliding around the heavens, I could see the shine of the moon trying to break ...