Cheboygan

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw will help deliver the Christmas trees to low-income families in Chicago.

Eight schools across the state are receiving a prehistoric class pet. The lake sturgeon is meant to inspire future generations to care about conservation.

A fire destroyed most of a tissue plant warehouse in a blaze that began Wednesday morning.

There are concerns about burning plastics, leading authorities to tell people in the city to stay inside and close their windows.

Led by WCMU's Teresa Homsi, students from the Cheboygan School Chronicle took a trip to the Cheboygan dam and reported on sea lamprey control.

These threatened fish only have one priority right now: to find where they hatched in the Black River and create the next generation. But on their mission, these gigantic fish are vulnerable to poaching.

Remove or rebuild? That’s the question facing a beloved dam in Cheboygan County. The state says it doesn’t want to remove the Cornwall dam, but it doesn’t have the funds to rebuild it either.

Hundreds of lake sturgeon will be traveling upstream at the end of this month to spawn. The state and local partners are seeking volunteers to stand guard as the fish make their journey in Cheboygan County to prevent poaching.

It was a slow start, and then a quick end this weekend, to Michigan’s shortest fishing season. The lake sturgeon is a prehistoric fish that lives a protected life in Black Lake, but once a year, anglers vie to be one of the few to land a giant.

Outdoors lovers will soon have access to stunning views of Burt and Mullet Lakes.