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It was a weekend to remember former State Senator Tom Casperson in Escanaba. Casperson served three terms in the state house and two in the state senate before dying last year of lung cancer. A memori...

Fire Danger Ratings across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan are very high this coming weekend. The Hiawatha National Forest is strongly encouraging forest visitors to have campfires only in Forest Serv...

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on Friday announced charges have been filed by her Public Integrity Unit against a Gogebic County Sheriff's Deputy. The charges against Deputy Scott Voit, and ste...

Governor Gretchen Whitmer today announced that the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) received nearly $978,000 from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to expand the state's bridge bun...

Throughout the City of Escanaba there are many city easements across sections of privately-owned properties, generally for the purposes of access to utilities such as electric, water, storm sewer, and...

As the economy continues to reopen, the Michigan Dept. of Labor and Economic Opportunity (LEO) launched a new 'Back to Work' effort to highlight programs and services that help businesses and their cu...

With high temperatures and limited rainfall expected for the next several days, fire danger is high or very high across much of northern Michigan. That means taking precautions to prevent wildfires th...

Suicide isn't exactly a comfortable topic to talk about - but the more we do, the more hope there is for the people in our communities who are struggling. They may be depressed; dealing with an illnes...

Governor Gretchen Whitmer today joined local entrepreneurs and business leaders to unveil the Michigan Economic Jumpstart Plan, which would allocate a portion of the federal relief funding to support ...

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday reported 510 new coronavirus positive tests. The state also announced the number of deaths dropped by five people after data was checke...