EDITOR'S NOTE: The Mining Journal, in cooperation with three other Upper Peninsula newspapers, is running companion pieces to Ogden Newspapers’ “America at 250” series, with a focus on the U.P.’s role in building America. Before the advent of the railroad, wagons provided the most ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: In the spring of 1861, the United States stood at its breaking point. For years, tensions between North and South had deepened. Nowhere was that more felt than in Virginia. While leaders in Richmond voted to join the Confederacy, many residents in the mountainous western counties ...

MARQUETTE – With summer unofficially starting today, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reminds residents and visitors to avoid foam on Michigan lakes, rivers, streams and other surface waters.   Foam can form on any body of water. It can be ...

ELY — Representatives from Ely Township and the Barnes-Hecker 100th Anniversary Committee Thursday came together for a ceremonial groundbreaking at Barnes-Hecker Memorial Park. The park is at the site of the old Barnes-Hecker mine, where 51 men lost their lives in the mine’s collapse and ...

CHIPPEWA COUNTY — Late last fall, the Sault Ste. Marie Police Department received a delayed missing person’s complaint. Sault police and Chippewa County Sheriff's Office received information and followed uncovered evidence to a remote location north of Paradise in Chippewa County, ...