Firefighters rescued a northern Michigan man on April 12 after he sank up to his waist in sand on the shore of Lake Michigan near Leland while rock hunting with his girlfriend. "Saturday, while at Van ...

The elusive Lake Superior agate. Rockhounds scour Lake Superior’s shoreline for these rare banded beauties—from the western reaches of the Keweenaw Peninsula to the U.P.’s easternmost Whitefish Point.

Linda Castro, left, assistant policy director of CalWild, with her dog Cash, and Gregor Losson, an advocate for rock and mineral collectors, study a specimen at Cady Mountains in Mojave Trails ...

LELAND TOWNSHIP, MI – A quicksand-like hole at a Lake Michigan beach held a rock hunter captive until a team of rescuers arrived to help, WPBN/WGTU reports. In the meantime, he and a friend realized ...

Michigan’s beaches aren’t only great for suntanning and swimming. They’re also a popular place for rockhounding. The shoreline is filled with colorful rocks and crystals of various varieties. The ...

Northern Michigan Voices is a series by 9&10 News reporter Olivia Fellows in which she interviews a person in the community about a story or experience from their life. Everyone has an interesting ...

DECATUR — If you're searching for rocks, a smooth football field is obviously a poor choice of hunting grounds. For that reason, the students in Andi Livingston's new geoscience class at LSA High ...

A Michigan man sank up to his waist in sand while rock hunting on the shore of Lake Michigan. The incident occurred in an area where dredged sand had been deposited, possibly creating unstable ...