Ron Rice, an Asheville native who grew up dirt poor but went on to rub elbows with the rich and famous after creating Hawaiian Tropic suntan lotion, has died. He was 81. A promotional wizard with a ...

NEW YORK — Massachusetts native Ben Rice made Yankee history against his hometown team on Saturday as New York slugged its way past the rival Red Sox. Rice became the first Yankees rookie to homer ...

EAST LANSING, MI – There’s a new plan to help restore and protect Michigan’s remaining native wild rice beds. Michigan’s wild rice, or manoomin stewardship plan was discussed in depth on Jan. 24 ...

As food trends move towards comfort, health, and sustainability, traditional Indian dishes are quietly taking centre stage.

During June, at 6,000 feet on the Colorado Plateau, Indian rice grass was dominating the meadows, waving its large, dark seeds in the wind. Indian rice grass, Achnatherum (or Oryzopsis or Stipa) ...

SOUTH CHIPPEWA LAKE, Minn. - Earl and Kathy Hoagland glide through the reedy shallows with a fluid choreography of motion melded by decades of shared work. Earl, planting his long pole in the muddy ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, MI – The process of changing manoomin from a medicine to a food happens at rice camp. Indigenous experts shared their traditional ecological knowledge during a recent wild rice camp at ...

Wild rice that grows in Michigan’s clearest and most pristine waters will be the focus of new state efforts to safeguard among the most culturally and ecologically important native plants in the upper ...