MARQUETTE — Whetstone Village Apartments is one step closer to a payment in lieu of taxes agreement with Marquette Township. The Marquette Township Board unanimously approved the first reading of the PILT ordinance, which if enacted, would allow the township to collect 4 percent of the ...

MARQUETTE — Marquette Mountain has a new general manager as of Monday afternoon. Andrew Farron, a mechanical engineer and winter sports enthusiast, is replacing Frank Malette, who took over operations on Marquette Mountain in May. Farron said changes are underway and hopes to have the ...

MARQUETTE — The Marquette Board of Light and Power and Upper Peninsula Power Co. are still responding to customer power outages today from what the National Weather Service is calling a historic ice storm. Over 400 customers were without power this morning after Monday’s storm. Karl ...

MARQUETTE — In light of the heightened need for food pantry services in the past weeks due to the partial government shutdown that lasted over a month, the Marquette Food Co-op is working to raise money for local food pantries at its registers. “Many of our neighbors are struggling to ...

MARQUETTE — With temperatures dropping to 18 degrees below zero, rescuers in Alger County were sent to Clyde Lake in late January to find three snowmobilers whose sleds had fallen through the ice into the water. Conservation officer Mark Zitnik and U.S. Forest Service officer Dave Tembruell ...

MARQUETTE — You might want to put on your ice skates to travel today. Or you might not want to travel at all. An ice storm warning is in effect until 7 tonight for Marquette, Alger, Delta, Dickinson and Menominee counties, although icy conditions as of early this morning already resulted in ...

MARQUETTE — Michigan has joined 19 other states and the District of Columbia in opposition to a U.S. District Court ruling that held the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. Attorney General Dana Nessel, with the support of and in coordination with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, filed a motion ...

MARQUETTE — Ever have a brilliant idea for the next big invention, product or business, but aren’t sure how to bring your idea to fruition? Invent@NMU recently established a kiosk in Northern Michigan University’s Lydia Olson Library for students, professors and community members to ...

MARQUETTE — Is solar power a viable option in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula? Can clean energy sources help local residents and businesses save money while reducing their use of fossil fuels? What are the most efficient sites and methods for solar array use? The Clean Energy Initiative, a ...

By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS — New Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued a directive Friday aimed at making it easier to obtain public documents from state departments but stopped short of taking the same action for the governor’s office, one of just two nationwide ...

ISHPEMING — The Ishpeming City Council is taking steps to correct a projected pension funding shortfall by asking to close its current pension plan to new hires. The council, at a special meeting Jan. 22, passed a resolution stating its preference to close the defined benefit plan offered ...

MARQUETTE — The Marquette County Board of Commissioners at its meeting Tuesday will decide upon the harvesting of timber in county forestland along a proposed easement route for Semco Energy Gas Co.’s Marquette Connector Pipeline. The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday in room 231 of ...

MARQUETTE — Renovations on Marquette’s federal courthouse that aim to increase security are scheduled to begin later this year. The project, which is slated to start in March, seeks to “improve court security, consolidate court office space and improve the space utilization and ...

Pump Up the Dome — Inflatable Game Day was held in the Superior Dome in Marquette on Saturday. Youths attending were able to enjoy a large variety of inflatable games and activities such as bounce houses, slides and obstacles, above. The event was presented by Northern Michigan ...

ISHPEMING—The construction of Ishpeming’s long-awaited Lake Bancroft Park pavilion may have to be scaled back after bids to build the structure came in well above its proposed budget. The funds earmarked for the project are $547,000, GEI Consultants Senior Project Manager Mark Stoor said ...

MARQUETTE — People bargain all the time, but in a labor-management setting? Not so much. Students from Marquette Senior and Negaunee high schools as well as local high schoolers learning skilled trades at Northern Michigan University’s Jacobetti Complex attended a collective bargaining ...

HARVEY — The Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ 2018 fall fish-stocking totals have been announced. From September through December, fisheries crews stocked nine different species for more than 1.1 million fish that weighed in at over 17 tons. These fish were stocked at 153 ...

MARQUETTE — The Marquette City Commission unanimously approved entering into a professional services agreement for a cost not to exceed $26,780 with Donohue & Associates Inc. to prepare a State Revolving Fund and Drinking Water Revolving Fund project plan in hopes of securing possible ...

CHICAGO (AP) —  The dangerous cold and heavy snow that hobbled the northern U.S. this week has retreated, but not before exacting a human toll: more than two dozen weather-related deaths in eight states and hundreds of injuries, including frostbite, broken bones, heart attacks and carbon ...

MARQUETTE — People calling the Shopko Pharmacy in Marquette might be in for a bit of a surprise. Customers calling regional retailer will hear a message from Walgreens instead. A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge for the District of Nebraska on Monday approved the $52 million sale of bankrupt ...