MARQUETTE — Local churches are honoring National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives and National Endangered Species Day by installing public art. Episcopal churches across the Upper Peninsula will be participating in National Day of Awareness for ...
MARQUETTE - The Michigan Department of Transportation continues to adjust spring weight restriction areas in an annual move to protect roads. Effective 6 a.m. Thursday, weight restrictions will be lifted on all state trunkline highways from the southern Michigan border north to and including the Mackinac Bridge. Frost restrictions are still in effect for the remainder of the state and will be imposed and enforced on all state trunkline highways north of the Mackinac Bridge, including the entire Upper Peninsula and Mackinac Island. State routes typically carry M, I or US ...
MARQUETTE – During the first year of the Trump administration, the student loan delinquency rate rose nearly 25%, according to the Century Foundation. Currently almost 9 million borrowers are in default, meaning they missed several payments and are at risk of having wages and tax refunds taken directly out of their accounts as payment toward their loans, according to the foundation, which is based in New York City. In 2023, the federal Saving on a Valuable Education plan was created by the administration of then-President Joe Biden. It was intended to reduce monthly loan ...
When most scholars of U.S. history study the birth and growth of the country, very few of them consider the Upper Peninsula’s contribution to the rise of the nation. And yet, it is so. John Jacob Astor organized the American Fur Company, with its headquarters on Mackinac Island, in 1808, ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second in a series of 12 weekly stories focusing on America’s 250th birthday, as told through the lens of our communities and the role many of the places we call home played in shaping the nation before, during and after the Revolutionary War. This week we stop in ...
MARQUETTE — The Marquette County Board of Commissioners declared a local state of emergency late Friday due to the widespread flooding in the area. The declaration states, “On Friday, the County of Marquette sustained widespread damage and is working to prevent injury or lost of life or ...
