Summer in the Upper Peninsula can mean breaking out the UTVs or ATVs for some off-road adventures in the north woods. The region is rich with ORV trails in counties on both sides of the Michigan-Wisconsin border. It offers hours of recreational riding through some of the best scenery to be ...

I sat in the living room a few days ago thinking it was deja-vu all over again. Back then the year was 1986, and that night it rained fire over Libya. Last weekend, it rained fire over Iran. As I sat on the couch reflecting on my family’s lives over the years, I thought of all the changes ...

I was on my way home from Gaylord recently when a creative roadside sign captured my attention. I couldn’t help but smile as I read its clever message, “Organic Firewood For Sale." This playful spin on the value of purchasing and using natural products certainly set that seller apart from ...

Birds are dying at an alarming rate, and it's a warning sign to humans that the quality of our environments are getting worse. Bird populations are an ecosystem indicator. The massive decline in bird species serves as our collective canary in a coal mine, an urgent reminder that what matters to ...

One of my goals in writing this column is to alert you to dangers to our democracy so you can alert others, who then alert others, and by this means we enlarge and strengthen our bulwark against the tide of fascism. Wars pose particular challenges to democracy because nations at war often ...

Zohran Mamdani's lead in first choices in New York City's ranked-choice mayoral primary, and his inevitable victory when second, third, fourth and fifth choices of trailing candidates are allocated to candidates voters ranked lower, mean that he'll be the Democratic nominee for mayor of the ...