After years of baking cakes as a side business, Jean Moran teamed with her daughter to open their own bakery in Menominee. Jean's Cakes & Bakery sells cakes, scones, bread and more.

Bugsy Sailor has taken a photo of the sunrise every morning of every day for nearly six years straight. In 2019, he started the Year of the Sunrise project, and today has a gallery of photos on display online, and at his store, the Upper Peninsula Supply Co.   

The Great Lakes Research Center at Michigan Technological University this week launched its Autonomous Surface Vessel. The unmanned vessel will map the Great Lakes and help answer decades-old questions involving the whereabouts of more than 200 unaccounted for shipwrecks and plane crashes in Lake Superior. 

Marquette honors its indigenous past with the unveiling next week of a sculpture, Seven Grandfather Teachings, by Anishinaabe artist Jason Quigno. 

Interest in electric recreational trails continues to grow in the U.P. The Central Upper Peninsula Planning and Development and Innovate Marquette SmartZone are pursuing an electrified trails feasibility study for the central U.P.

It's been a successful fish stocking season for the Upper Peninsula and Michigan. Three U.P hatcheries contributed to that success and are luring anglers and visitors curious about the operations.

Located in the far-flung western U.P., Ironwood is a city poised for redevelopment, recently earning a Redevelopment Ready Community designation from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.

The Michigan Outdoor Innovation Fund has announced its first round of investments to three state-based companies in the outdoor innovation space.