Latest news, weather, high school sports for Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

Thursday, May 30, 2013  Oswald's Bear Ranch in Newberry is, again, able to let tourists take pictures with bears since the Large Carnivore Act, amended earlier in 2013

Monday, May 27, 2013  Oswald's Bear Ranch in Newberry is open for the summer

Tuesday, April 02, 2013  Senate Bill 48 amended the Large Carnivore Act, allowing Oswald's Bear Ranch to again let visitors touch and take pictures with the bear cubs

Thursday, February 14, 2013  Michigan lawmakers are attempting to pass a bill that would allow the public to touch and pose in photos with bear cubs

Thursday, March 24, 2011  Right now Oswald’s Bear Ranch in Luce County, just north of Newberry, is gearing up to show the bears for another season starting Memorial Day weekend and ending September 30

Wednesday, October 13, 2010  He punched, kicked and screamed at the bears as they separately tried to reach the stand, about 15 feet off the ground

Monday, March 09, 2009  The entire process is designed to keep a core group of females available to take on orphan cubs.