HANCOCK — The Ryan Street Community Garden is raising funds to purchase the land and keep it open to the public as a Hancock city park. The garden was started in 2010 on property owned by Finlandia University, which went into receivership when the university closed this year. The goal is ...

HANCOCK — Houghton Canal View’s new leader officially started work Friday. Adam Laplander was named as the Houghton County medical care facility’s new chief executive officer and administrator in August. Prior to his new position, he served as Canal View’s comptroller for the past ...

HARRIS — Executive Chef Kristina Pomeroy — originally from Stonington but now based in Escanaba — has worked in the kitchens of the Island Resort and Casino for 22 years. During her teen years, she worked as a dishwasher at Jack’s Restaurant in Rapid River. Her introduced to food ...

Marquette County Sheriff Greg Zyburt, front right, is one of tens of thousands of people who participated in the 2023 Mackinac Bridge Walk Monday between St. Ignace and Mackinaw City. He walks beside Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, front left, and dozens of others. A slight breeze and bright ...

By Journal Staff BESSEMER — Ensign William Finnegan, who was born in Bessemer and died during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, will be buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu on Thursday. Finnegan was born on April 18, 1897, in Bessemer, although his ...

ALGOMA, Wis. (AP) — Shipwreck hunters have discovered the intact remains of a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in 1881 and is so well-preserved it still contains the crew’s possessions in its final resting spot miles from Wisconsin’s coastline. Wisconsin maritime historians Brendon ...