MARQUETTE— Personnel from the Marquette County Sheriff’s Office responded to a snowmobile accident along Trail 8 near the Peshekee Grade. A 73-year-old Ely Township snowmobile driver collided with a sled driven by a 15-year-old Michigamme boy on Thursday. The 73-year-old, who police did ...
IRON RIVER — The Michigan State Police from the Iron Mountain post is requesting the public’s help in locating an adult male and an adult female who are missing. MSP is working to locate the couple and verify their well being. According to an MSP press release, the missing subjects are ...
NEW YORK — From Sydney to Paris to New York City, crowds rang in the new year with exuberant celebrations filled with thunderous fireworks or light shows, while others took a more subdued approach. As the clock struck midnight in Japan, temple bells rang and some climbed mountains to see the ...
LANSING — Michigan’s minimum wage jumped by $1.25 an hour on Thursday under a new state law that sped up planned base rate increases but scaled back a bigger bump for tipped workers. The minimum wage climbed from $12.48 to $13.73 an hour on Jan. 1. The sub-minimum wage for tipped ...
MARQUETTE – Local Celtic trio, The Knockabouts, is set to perform at the Marquette Maritime Museum's Jan. 6 Maritime History on Tap event. Barb Rhyneer (fiddle, vocals), Tim DeMarte (Bodhran, vocals) and Daniel Truckey (guitar, bouzouki, vocals) will perform a set of tunes rooted in the ...
The U.S. Postal Service has adopted a new rule that could create doubt about whether some ballots mailed by voters by Election Day will receive postmarks in time to be counted. A USPS rule that took effect on Dec. 24 says mail might not receive a postmark on the same day the agency takes ...