Category Archives: News

One year after Michigan lawmakers legalized sports betting and online gambling, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) is hosting its 14th Annual Gambling Disorder Symposium, "Ga...

Following an investigation by the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD), the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) has confirmed ...

The Healthy Youth Coalition of Marinette & Menominee Counties (HYC) was recently awarded multiple grants for substance use prevention projects within the two counties. The Provident Health Foundat...

The Greater Ishpeming-Negaunee Area Chamber of Commerce (GINCC) held a ribbon cutting Friday to celebrate the continued growth of West End Ski & Trail in downtown Ishpeming. The trail shop moved t...

An Escanaba man successfully ditched his plane Thursday afternoon, after engine failure forced an emergency landing on the frozen surface of Indian Lake. Mark Meyer, 62, had flown his single-engine pl...

The Menominee County Sheriff's Office is asking for help identifying and locating a robbery suspect. Deputies say a man entered the Family Dollar Store in Spalding at 8:45 p.m. Central time on Wednesd...

Upper Peninsula resident Trudy Olsson has been inducted into the National Ski Patrol Hall of Fame. The National Ski Patrol, a 29,000-member organization that was founded in 1938, has inducted only 80 ...

U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters introduced new legislation with U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) to lower the cost of insulin and save Michigan patients money. The Affordable...

Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed House Bills 4149 and 4151 to decriminalize certain minor hunting, fur harvester, and fishing violations. House Bill 4149 decriminalizes fishing with more than the auth...

Qualifying Upper Peninsula businesses that have suffered financial hardship from COVID-19 are encouraged to apply for the State of Michigan's new Afflicted Business Relief (ABR) grant program. There i...