An Upper Peninsula football coach and his family are pushing to turn personal tragedy into helping as many other people as possible with the documentary "Do It For Daniel," a story of football, mental health, and suicide.

The number of food trucks popping up in the U.P. seems to increase each season. Here's the latest new endeavors and why there are so many lately.

A U.P.-made web series is getting ready to film its second season, and is reaching out to the U.P. community at large to get involved and support the production.

Renovating old historic buildings helps preserve our "sense of place" while offering a new purpose for the building, like apartments or retail establishments. In the U.P., several buildings are or will be painstakingly restored and repurposed to meet the needs of the 21st century.

There is no doubt that combating hunger in our communities is a real need, and some school districts, like Ishpeming, are finding a way to help students in need. 

Michigan's Upper Peninsula may be known as the state's most pristine area, but its waterways have met their fair share of environmental disaster. These "Areas of Concern" are part of an initiative to clean up legacy contamination in the Great Lakes' most toxic hotspots.

With delisting as an Area of Concern expected in the next few years, the Manistique River has truly turned back into a jewel of the Upper Peninsula. 

In some ways, Upper Peninsula resident Annette Gleason is just like any other teacher. She develops relationships with her students, shares progress updates with parents and checks students' work to make sure they're grasping the material. But though she gets to know each kid, she rarely meets any of them in person--she teaches hundreds of students across the state 100 percent online from her home.

Innovate Marquette is the Upper Peninsula’s third, and newest, SmartZone outpost. With an experienced leader and robust support from NMU, it’s setting in motion an ambitious vision for the region’s economic future.

Logging has long been an industry that has been a part of the Upper Peninsula landscape and communities. We take a minute to meet some of the loggers who are out in the woods working no matter what the weather brings.