I've planted the potted mums in the garden and packed away the scarecrows — now it's time to deck the halls. That means filling vacant pots with evergreen branches foraged from my trees and shrubs, hanging cedar swags on the porch and placing a wreath on the door. They'll look great at ...

“Well, I grew up wild and free, walking these fields in my bare feet. There wasn’t no place I couldn’t go with a .22 rifle and a fishing pole,” – Bob McDill Growing up in an iron-ore mining town put us kids in close contact with some of the coolest things, especially for boys. I ...

As wintry weather settles in, it brings risks for pets as well as people. Pet owners can take steps to keep their animals warm and safe, including learning about the dangers of extreme temperatures, buying weather-resistant accessories, and stocking up on extra supplies in case of power outages ...

“Now it’s past my bed I know, I’d really like to go, soon it will be the break of day, sitting here in Blue Jay Way.” – George Harrison By JOHN PEPIN Michigan Department of Natural Resources When I was a young boy, my sister and I slept in twin beds that were given to us as a ...

LANSING — Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources and Department of Agriculture & Rural Development encourage those who have eastern hemlock trees on their property to take time this winter to inspect the trees for signs of hemlock woolly adelgid — tiny, soft-bodied insects that ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Towering talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives, decades after famed Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx introduced them in the 1960s. Towards the end of its life — which can span between 40 and 80 ...