MARQUETTE — The Winter Olympics in Beijing was nearing the end on Saturday, but another Olympics was just getting started. Northern Michigan University on Saturday hosted the Region I Science Olympiad, which brought in middle and high school students from across the Upper Peninsula to ...

LANSING — Student mental health has become a top worry for Michigan educators, according to a new statewide survey of 2,600 educators. The Michigan Education Association survey found that 88% said they were very concerned about student behavioral problems and mental health. That was the ...

MARQUETTE — Local youths have expressed their patriotism in an impressive way. Liliana Saunders, an eighth-grade student at Negaunee Middle School, and Gabriel Grondz, a freshman at Westwood High School, have been honored for essays in the recent Patriots Pen and Veterans of Foreign Wars ...

LANSING — School staff shortages are on the rise, according to Wendy Zdeb, the executive director of the Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals. “When I graduated from college in the early ‘90s, there were hours that you’d wait in line at teacher job fairs, just hoping ...

MARQUETTE — It’s winter and there’s still a pandemic. Fortunately, there’s a way for youngsters to bring a little color into their lives and learn at the same time. The Peter White Public Library is holding its second annual Flamingos in the Snow program for youths up to age 14. The ...

BUCHAREST, Romania — Maksim Goldenshteyn recounts a story his grandmother once told him about how, as a 4-year-old child, she snuck out of a Jewish ghetto during World War II to retrieve her favorite dolls that had been left behind when her family was forcibly evicted from their home in ...