FELCH TOWNSHIP — The owner of local landmark Solberg’s Bar & Grill and a companion were seriously injured late Tuesday when fire tore through the house next to the restaurant in Felch. Robert Smith, who took over the business in 2019, and Nikki Versailles Phinney were able to make it ...

By ILSA MINOR Escanaba Daily Press ESCANABA — In a first for Delta County, the Delta County League of Women Voters and the American Association of University Women held a closed forum Tuesday for the candidates running in the May 7 special recall election for the Delta County Board of ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — A petition drive to remove Postmaster General Louis DeJoy may be the best option for correcting a decline in U.S. mail service, an Iron Mountain resident says. Tracy Asanuma addressed Dickinson County Board on Monday, suggesting a coordinated campaign to deluge the White ...

HOUGHTON — As more specialized crisis lines have grown in popularity, a line that has served Copper Country residents in need for more than half a century will be discontinued. The Copper Shores Community Health Foundation’s crisis line, run by the former Dial Help, is being discontinued ...

In July 2021, the Atlantic published an article that came right to the point in its title: America Has a Drinking Problem. “Few things are more American than drinking heavily,” author Kate Julian wrote. When taking history into account, she is right. For instance, John Hancock, one of ...

HANCOCK — Volunteers repotted thousands of native plant seedlings at the Keweenaw Land Trust headquarters for Earth Day. The plants come from Brian Black, a faculty member at Bay College who grows native plants in his greenhouse for the local chapter of Wild Ones. Each year, he donates the ...