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Hank’s General Store provides staples in central UP

HELMER — Hank’s General Store, located in a small community outside Curtis between inland lakes popular for recreation, provides locals and visitors with staples and bites when they’re in the area. The area surrounding Manistique Lake is scattered with resorts and campgrounds and ...

Some Michigan hunters may be allowed to skip paper kill tags

(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) Michigan may allow hunters to use a mobile app to show they are authorized to kill certain animals. Currently, hunters need a physical kill tag, ...

Russian cargo jet grounded in UP 16 years may soon fly again

(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) One of the Upper Peninsula’s most enduring sagas — the grounding of a Russian cargo jet marooned near Marquette for 16 years — may soon come ...

Michigan high court asked to hear case on zoo chimps’ rights

The Nonhuman Rights Project, a legal advocacy organization that has been advocating for the rights of seven chimpanzees at the DeYoung Family Zoo in Wallace has filed an application with the Michigan Supreme Court to overturn a Court of Appeals decision and grant the chimpanzees a trial court ...