MARQUETTE — Starting at 6 p.m. Friday, the Upper Peninsula Land Conservancy will hold an Earth Day fundraising concert at the Honorable Distillery in Marquette. The event will feature voice and guitar duo Deux Saisons, as well as a themed cocktail and raffle prizes. “Keri Lee Pierson (of ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com. As online betting becomes increasingly popular, Michigan does less than other states to help people with gambling ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...