×

Front Page News

Whitmer declares May Pure Michigan Month

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 ...

How a fight for Toledo gave Michigan the U.P.

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 ...

Seven Ranges survey changed the country

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 ...

Tavaris Jackson sentenced to life without parole for 2023 murder

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, ...

Experts warn of ‘big year’ for tick bites, Lyme disease

Some Wisconsin health professionals are bracing for a bad year for Lyme disease, as tick activity was already higher in April than at the same time last year. In much of the nation, emergency room visits for tick bites are at their highest weekly rate for this time of year since 2017, ...