Porcupine Mountain Wilderness

A $50 million grant for a copper mine in the Upper Peninsula was approved by the state House Appropriations Committee.

The deal does not include lands associated with the Copperwood project being developed by Highland Copper in the southwest corner of the park.

The Michigan Strategic Fund approved a resolution to provide a copper mine in the western Upper Peninsula with $50 million to go towards infrastructure needs.

An 8-year-old Wisconsin boy who spent two days lost in a remote, rugged northern Michigan park says he prayed during his ordeal that he wouldn’t be “stuck out here for the rest of my life.”

Nante Niemi had been camping with his family in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in the western Upper Peninsula

Authorities searched for a missing 8-year-old boy in the rugged terrain of a northern Michigan state park Sunday

For our first episode of Explore Up North, WXPR’s Katie Thoresen takes us to one of the most iconic and popular spots to view the colors: The Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is distributing about $16 million in American Rescue Plan funds to parks in 10 counties, including the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park.

Local news for Wednesday, June 15, 2022.