GWINN — Gwinn Area Community Schools has a new superintendent. Dr. Sara Croney was selected by the Gwinn Area Community Schools Board of Education as the new superintendent of schools. Croney replaces former Superintendent Brandon Bruce, who accepted a position at a downstate ...

MARQUETTE — The Upper Peninsula Health Plan is in need of volunteer drivers throughout the Upper Peninsula. According to a news release from UPHP, volunteer drivers play a crucial role in ensuring members receive the medical care they need. UPHP currently serves 55,000 members. Volunteer ...

MARQUETTE — The city of Marquette is one of two Upper Peninsula communities to receive statewide placemaking grants through the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. Last week, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the MEDC announced the approval of more than $99 million in grant funding across 10 ...

DETROIT — Michigan taxpayers will be on the hook for a financial penalty after state attorneys violated a court order by distributing protected documents in the Flint water prosecution. A judge last Friday found Attorney General Dana Nessel’s agency in civil contempt. The department ...

WASHINGTON — The House Republican majority is stuck, one week after the ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy, with lawmakers unable to coalesce around a new leader in a stalemate that threatens to keep Congress partly shuttered indefinitely. On Tuesday evening, two leading contenders for the ...

MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University President Brock Tessman announced his intentions for the future of Native American studies during the school’s Indigenous Peoples Day celebration Monday. The day’s events — including celebration, speakers and marching — were hosted by the ...