Hundreds of anglers make their way onto the ice each winter, hoping to take home one of these dinosaur-age fish. This year’s season is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 7. The Michigan Department of ...

A DNR expert said the cold snap has made ice "even thicker" on many southeast Michigan lakes, giving people "more comfort ...

This long stretch of bitter cold has brought headaches for many, but for one community it’s an answered wish. The Buckeye Lake community has taken the frigid temperatures as an invitation to get out ...

Robert Kohrman, a retired chemistry faculty and administrator at Central Michigan University, has an obsession with books ...

Didymo — also called ‘rock snot’ because of its appearance — suddenly bloomed in Michigan streams in recent years, and scientists don’t really know why.

These lakeside backroads are a pilgrimage for the soul, leading to sun-bleached fish shacks where the siding is silvered by ...

Michigan hides quiet corners where the chatter drops and the landscape does the taking. These are the places where the air smells like pine shavings and cold stone, and where the rhythmic “slap” of ...

My dear friend and river guide, Drew Oliver, went fishing on Jan. 12. Which isn’t very remarkable. What’s remarkable is he ...

Shortly after Captain Rhianna Macon arrived in Milwaukee to take command of the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Lake Michigan last June, she toured the lighthouses around the lake. For Macon, the lighthouses ...

Will the Black Lake lake sturgeon fishing season again set a time record in 2026? We'll find out Feb. 7 when the season begins — and most likely also end. The 2026 lake sturgeon fishing season on ...

With temperatures warming up this week, there is a renewed warning about a dangerous and deceptive layer of ice forming along Lake Michigan Marissa Perman joins us with why rescue officials say ...

Every year, Michigan hosts one of the shortest fishing seasons in the country with the Black Lake sturgeon harvest, and the details have just been released for 2026. The 2026 lake sturgeon fishing ...