MARQUETTE — Gas prices surged across the state last week. According to GasBuddy, the average price of a gallon of gasoline has risen 83.8 cents per gallon since last week. The average price of gas in Michigan was $4.85 per gallon on Monday. Marquette was slightly below that amount, with ...
LANSING — May has officially been declared Pure Michigan Month by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. “We recognize the iconic Pure Michigan brand as the state’s calling card, inspiring immense local pride and driving tourism growth for 20 years,” Whitmer said in a news release. “The Pure ...
A complicated boundary dispute over a 468-square-mile strip of land can be attributed to poor maps and stubborn colonists. It resulted in Congress favoring Ohio and giving the Upper Peninsula to Michigan as a consolation prize when the latter “lost” the Toledo War to achieve ...
Editor’s note: In the years following the Revolutionary War, the United States stood as an unfinished nation. Victory had secured independence, formalized by the Treaty of Paris, but it had not secured stability. The young republic was burdened by war debt, constrained under the Articles of ...
ESCANABA — Tavaris Jackson was sentenced Friday after being found guilty in March of killing 22-year-old Harley Corwin. Delta County 47th Circuit Court Judge John Economopoulos delivered the sentencing Friday afternoon. For count one — first-degree premeditated murder — Jackson, 35, ...
