WASHINGTON — A legislative package to end the government shutdown appears on track after a handful of Senate Democrats joined with Republicans to break the impasse in what has become a deepening disruption of federal programs and services, the longest in history. What's in and out of the ...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most tragic and well-known shipwrecks on the Great Lakes, the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The tragedy particularly resonates locally, with Superior being the ship’s last port of call, and “the wives and the sons and the daughters” of ...

MARQUETTE — The Superior Health Foundation has announced a $65,000 allocation to support food pantries and hunger-relief programs across Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. This funding comes in response to the delay in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit distributions, which began ...

LANSING — Associated Press reporter Harry Atkins was far from Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, "when the gales of November came early." But his news coverage the following day of the infamous wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald helped shape its legacy. Atkins, now 86, was a news reporter in ...

President Donald Trump's administration is demanding states "undo" full SNAP benefits paid out under judges' orders last week, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has stayed those rulings, marking the latest swing in a seesawing legal battle over the anti-hunger program used by 42 million ...