MARQUETTE — The Michigan Department of Transportation is now accepting applications for the 2026-2027 Paint the Plow program. This program offers a unique opportunity for MDOT to partner with area schools, using students’ creativity to communicate safe winter driving practices for all ...
MARQUETTE — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has released the following statement after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay instituting a nationwide ban on prescribing mifepristone via telehealth, effectively prohibiting FDA-approved telemedicine abortions: “This ...
Today is Tuesday, May 5, the 125th day of 2026. There are 240 days left in the year. Today in history: On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard Mercury capsule Freedom 7. Also on this date: In ...
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 ...
KEWEENAW COUNTY – Keweenaw County Sheriff Curt Pennala said four of the county’s five townships are facing critical shortages of first responders. “Fortunately,” said Pennala, “the Search & Rescue seems to be well-staffed right now, but particularly, what the county needs right ...
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 ...