Ontonagon County News

Yesterday, sections of the western U.P. received beneficial rains associated with the front that blasted through the U.P.A Over an inch fell at Ironwood, with Rockland in Ontonagon County tallying 0.90 inches and Twin Lakes in Houghton County 0.79 inches.A Unfortunately farther east, the rain area shrunk and dissipated so that the fire-ravaged area ... (more)

This photo of a cougar was taken by Baraga County resident Fred Nault near Skanee on Saturday, May 5. The photo represents the 15th time the DNR has been able to verify the presence of a cougar in the Upper Peninsula since 2008.

A motorist pulled up along side me as I was slowly running down a Negaunee street sometime in mid-May 1997, rolled down his window and hollered, "This has been the worst May that I can remember and I've lived here all my seventy years."A I could not disagree with him; if one were an aficionado of mild spring weather, May 1997 was a trying time ... (more)