Bear complaints in Wisconsin have been on the rise in recent years, and a new study seeks to pinpoint whether there is widespread use of birdshot to deter problem bears. Birdshot refers to shotgun shells that are filled with tiny pellets generally used for hunting birds. This fall, ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — Michigan’s spring turkey hunt application period is open through Feb. 1. Applications are $5 and are available online, at a license agent, or in the Michigan DNR Hunt Fish app. The number of units has been reduced from 14 to 3. The units are M (Upper Peninsula), NN ...

Over the past year, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has regularly joined other attorneys general in taking numerous legal actions against the Trump administration and its policies. The majority of those attorney generals have been Democrats, as is Nessel. Just in the past week, Nessel ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — A Vulcan couple got the best New Year’s gift — the first baby born in 2026 at Marshfield Medical Center-Dickinson. Anna and Andrew Hutchinson of Vulcan welcomed a son, Archer Lynn, at 9:57 a.m. Jan. 1, 2026. He weighed 5 pounds, 11 ounces and measured 18 inches long. ...

Respondents to an annual Michigan college survey of overused and misused words and phrases say " 6-7 " is "cooked" and should come to a massive full-stop heading into the new year. Those are among the top 10 words on the 50th annual "Banished Words List," released Thursday by Lake Superior ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration unveiled this week hundreds of millions of dollars each state will receive this fiscal year as part of a massive $50 billion rural health fund baked into Republicans’ “big, beautiful” law. The five-year Rural Health Transformation ...