Category Archives: News

Around 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, Marinette County Dispatch received a call of a crash on State Highway 180 near Oxbow Lane in the Town of Wausaukee. A vehicle was traveling westbound on State Highway 180 whe...

Upper Peninsula Power Company (UPPCO) is now accepting proposals through February 22, 2019, for the annual Bond Falls Mitigation and Enhancement Fund (MEF) grant. The goal of the MEF grant is to creat...

Now is the time to get rid of this past year's abused and misused words and phrases. Only a matter of days remain to submit a nomination for Lake Superior State University's 2019 Word Banishment List,...

Marquette Mountain is hosting three nights of live music to benefit local Special Olympics this Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The Scene and Reheard Winter Wingding will feature 9 bands. The shows wil...

USA Luge has announced that Torrey Cookman of Marquette, Mich. and Henry Anderson of Appleton, Wisc. have been selected as members of the United States Natural Track Luge Team. Cookman and Anderson wi...

Shopko Stores Operating Co., LLC announced today that it has entered an agreement with Kroger to sell a select number of its pharmacy locations to Kroger. Shopko will sell 42 of its current 227 pharma...

A Niagara (Marinette County) woman claimed the $100,000 top prize in the Wisconsin Lottery Holly Jolly Raffle Friday. The winning ticket was sold at Pit Stop Gas (1240 River St.) in Niagara. Michelle ...

Legislation that would create an oversight group for the construction of a utility tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac is going to Governor Snyder's desk. The Michigan House approved the legislatio...

A 37-year-old Marquette man confessed Monday to Michigan Department of Natural Resources conservation officers to illegally killing a buck inside the city limits. The man's name has not been released....

The Marquette Senior High School gym will be named "Barb Crill Gymnasium" at a ceremony Tuesday afternoon. The event is slated to get underway at four with a documentary on the pioneering coach and te...