Editor’s Note: This is Part 3 of Jack Flaherty’s family trip to Alaska to visit his grandparents. This picks up with the family’s arrival by airplane to Alaska. The walk to exit the plane was super tight and crammed. But then we got to the airport. It was smaller than the one back in ...

Here are upcoming event at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette: • April 19-25 — The Peter White Public Library will be celebrating the joy that is public libraries all week long with events for patrons to take part in. Free coffee day is on Monday, April 20, button-making on ...

WASHINGTON — Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that took over the world and would eventually lead to us. And it happened millions of years ...

Now that the 2026 Winter Olympics have concluded, as a hockey player, one of my favorite sports to watch is hockey, especially women’s hockey. It’s been 28 years since women’s hockey was introduced to the Olympics. The main rivalry is the United States vs. Canada. Considered the top ...

In 1884, a strange year for weather, January started it out as a cold winter, a time when the temperature reached 47 degrees below zero in Republic. In February, the thermometer registered a bone-chilling 34 below zero on Feb. 28 in Ishpeming. March started out a bit warmer and it rained ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The astronaut who prompted NASA's first medical evacuation earlier this year said Friday that doctors still don't know why he suddenly fell sick at the International Space Station. Four-time space flier Mike Fincke said he was eating dinner on Jan. 7 after prepping ...