LANSING — Lake Michigan’s scenic coastline and other areas throughout northern Lower Michigan will become more accessible for electric vehicle users this summer with the installation of electric vehicle charging stations at select Michigan state parks. Starting from Warren Dunes State ...

KINGSFORD — Joshua Isaac, the district forester with the Dickinson/Menominee Conservation District, will be conducting guided nature hikes starting this Friday to have conversations about everything from forest management to wildfire, invasive species, tree, plant, bird, animal, insect and ...

BANGKOK (AP) — The world’s largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists from the Southeast Asian nation and the United States. The stingray, captured on June 13, measured almost 13 feet from snout to tail and ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — Anglers were landing smallmouth bass and panfish this week, but walleye action was spotty as temperature swings put added guesswork into fishing. “Smallmouths have been hitting,” said Ken Dabb at Whisler Outdoors in Florence, Wis. “They’re catching some nice perch on ...

The birds that regularly nest in the yard — American robins, eastern phoebes, Baltimore orioles — appear to have hatched their first broods for the season. The phoebe’s nest atop the light fixture on my mom’s quilting shop has at least two chicks visible, with possibly a third tucked ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — Joshua Isaac, conservation district forester in Dickinson and Menominee counties, will conduct guided nature hikes every other Friday beginning at 10 a.m. July 1. Through Sept. 23, each hike will be at a different local trail system, starting with Iron Mountain City ...