The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources joins the nation in celebrating Sunday through Saturday as Forest Products Week. Wisconsin has 17 million acres of public and private forested land that provides raw material to the forest products industry, the DNR states in a news release. Forest ...

The Evergreen Award given out annually by the Marquette Zonta Club, goes to an extraordinary woman in the local community, someone who has and is making a difference for a wide variety of people, but especially young people. That's a perfect description of this year's recipient, Pamela ...

To ensure students’ safety when traveling to and from school, police officers across Michigan will be ramping up patrols this week looking for drivers illegally passing school buses. “Operation Safe Stop” is a statewide enforcement campaign that will be conducted today through Friday in ...

Although it’s not entirely clear what they were doing, a handful of police agencies spent most of last week poking around wooded areas in and around northern Seney Township in Schoolcraft County last week. We do know investigators have said they were looking for human remains, perhaps buried ...

The state is warning of a scam involving Facebook Marketplace and similar platforms — and if this one sounds like something out of the movies, it’s because it is. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has reissued a consumer alert after numerous social media reports surfaced of ...

It’s hard to understand why parents or adult guardians refuse to get their children vaccinated. It’s a puzzling problem that medical experts seem unable to crack: convincing all parents that immunizing their children against diseases that we thought were long gone generations ago. There ...