hiking

Inside rustic cabins and yurts at the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park there are log books. For more than 70 years, visitors have written in them. We went into this time capsule to see if people’s experiences here had changed much over the changing decades.

City officials continue to leverage Woodstock's location at the junction of highways 401 and 403. This is Part Two of Postmedia’s How Canada Wins series.

Author Stephanie Carpenter grew up in Traverse City and knows the former Traverse City State Hospital well.

McCord Henry is suing Benzie County and four current or former Benzie County Sheriff’s deputies, in a federal civil rights lawsuit over what the complaint states is a culture of misogyny that contributed to his mother’s murder.

After 150 years, the tribe regains ownership of land that was once the epicenter of Ojibwe and Odawa villages in the Leelanau Peninsula.

According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the outdoor industry brought in nearly $14 billion in economic activity. That’s an 8 percent increase compared to 2022.

Among the longer-term approaches to address increasingly unreliable winter weather, some groups are pushing against fossil fuels.

A new federal bill aims to close the gap for businesses that suffered from a lack of snow last year that weren't eligible for federal loans.

When world-renowned London scientist and teacher Jeremy McNeil died in July, he left more than 600 bug t-shirts.

By Victor Wooddell Capital News Service The 2023-24 winter was the warmest on record in the U.S. with average temperatures throughout the state above freezing, with close to average precipitation, according to the National Weather Service. Data from the Southeast Regional Climate Center shows that average daily maximum temperatures in the Midwest were several degrees […]

The post Michigan tourism preps for a colder winter first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.

By Victor Wooddell Capital News Service The 2023-24 winter was the warmest on record in the U.S. with average temperatures throughout the state above freezing, with close to average precipitation, according to the National Weather Service. Data from the Southeast Regional Climate Center shows that average daily maximum temperatures in the Midwest were several degrees […]

The post Michigan tourism preps for a colder winter first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.

Romayne Smith Fullerton was walking her dog with a friend in a wildlife preserve southwest of St. Thomas Tuesday morning when she heard an “enormous thump.”