The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services encourages Michigan residents to take steps to avoid tick bites while enjoying the outdoors. Risk of tick-borne diseases, particularly Lyme disease and anaplasmosis, increases across the state as weather warms. Ticks can be active when the ...

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, which has been observed since 1949. So, why does mental health still feel like a taboo topic? Maybe we’re all just uninformed, perhaps some are ignorant, and, honestly, it can be tough to understand. Not understanding is reasonable. When you ...

To remind everyone about the importance of buckling up, the Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning has announced a “Click It or Ticket” seat belt enforcement campaign that will run from May 20 to June 2. The Michigan State Police, as well as officers from city and county police ...

Moving firewood when you camp, hunt or head out for a weekend getaway means you risk carrying tree-killing insects and diseases to new places. Invasive pests can crawl out, infesting trees and carrying diseases that can forever change the landscape of the places you love. According to the ...

A pair of west end fisherman reportedly owe their lives to the fast action of a unit of the Marquette County Sheriff’s Office. This particular drama unfolded Wednesday evening out on Deer Lake near Ishpeming. At 8:33 p.m., the Marquette County Sheriff’s Special Operations Unit was ...

If anyone had thoughts that Marquette’s Gaza war protesters were going to disappear after Northern Michigan University’s spring commencement was over, what went on in downtown Wednesday should have dispelled those ideas. While it wasn’t a huge number, an energenic group of ...