While picking up pizza and cat food, I found myself caught up in watching the gulls hanging around the parking lot of what used to be Kmart on Iron Mountain’s south side. They showed little fear of the passing vehicles as they marched across the blacktop, hunting for who knows what in the ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — The U.P. Ice Fishing and Hunting Expo continues today and Sunday in and around the Ruth Butler Building on the Upper Peninsula State Fairgrounds in Escanaba. Hours today are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern time. On Sunday, hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission is free, though ...

SIREN, Wis. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy has shot and killed a wounded black bear as it was mauling his father near their hunting cabin in the thick western Wisconsin woods. Ryan Beierman, 43, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that he was pinned beneath the 200-pound bruin on Sept. 6 when his ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — Temperatures are expected to reach well into the 80s this weekend as Michigan has its annual Liberty Hunt and Wisconsin opens its archery and crossbow deer seasons. Deer hunters age 16 or younger and individuals with qualifying disabilities may participate in the Liberty ...

The seasons are shifting quickly. While the past week featured summer-like warmth in the 80s — a trend the National Weather Service predicts will continue through most of next week — nature is providing plenty of signs that, as “Game of Thrones” famously proclaimed, “Winter is ...

Those who have followed this column probably have figured out I’m a big fan of wildlife. It’s a thrill to see the abundant animals, large and small, that have wandered into the yard or paddled by just offshore during my almost nine years at Six Mile Lake. That doesn’t mean they ...