BARK RIVER -- Brothers Joe and Rick Peltier will host their first Veterans Fundraiser, with all proceeds going to Upper Peninsula Honor Flight, from 3-7 p.m. Saturday in the barn Joe calls “Freedom Hall,” 2026 Old U.S. 2/41 in Bark River. The Peltier Band of Brothers will provide live ...

Michigan is among the only strongholds for some of North America’s most unique and vulnerable wildlife. Whether it’s the Kirtland’s warbler nesting in young jack pine forests, piping plovers scurrying across sandy Great Lakes beaches or the Karner blue butterfly flitting among wild ...

RAPID RIVER — The owner of Rapid River Pub says arson is suspected in a blaze that broke out in the back of the business early Monday. According to Tom Szocinski, when the bartender declined to serve a man who had previously been banned from the pub, he replied, "Then I’ll take this ...

ESCANABA — WeldAll Industrial Co. in north Escanaba was founded by two former welding instructors and today fills a unique niche: providing training and certification to welders at other businesses as well as repairing boilers and pressure vessels. Cliff Danis and Dave Konkel’s backgrounds ...

On a cold, rainy fall afternoon in 2019, veteran bear hunter Elijah Keller and a friend had spent hours tracking a black bear through the western Upper Peninsula woods. Soaked and exhausted, the men hustled along to keep up with Keller’s two hounds, at one point sprinting up a hill when ...

The 50th-annual exhibition organized by the Upper Peninsula Steam and Gas Engine concluded Monday at the U.P. State Fairgrounds in Escanaba.