HARVEY - People who depended on the Free Store for basic needs - but had to go without them after the closing of Grace United Methodist Church in January - shouldn't have to wait long to have those needs met again.The new Free Store is expected to relocate at the rental building adjacent to the ...

MARQUETTE - The Fether home along Woodland Avenue is not your typical city yard. Instead of a manicured lawn and trimmed hedges, it has black raspberries, pear trees, honeybees and chickens.And, of course, chicken eggs.Jake Fether, who lives with his wife, Kate, and children Liam and Cora, ...

MARQUETTE - Here's a mystery for you: why would somebody like me or my bright and talented colleagues choose the worst job in America for a career?Yep. Newspaper reporter has been at the very bottom of the Jobs Rated report for the last three years, No. 200 out of 200 jobs ranked.The report ...

CLEVELAND - While some delegates return to the Republican National Convention every four years, for some, including Michigan State Rep. Ed McBroom, the experience is brand new.McBroom is representing the Upper Peninsula in at the convention in Cleveland alongside Escanaba resident Judi ...

MARQUETTE - If you'd like to get an idea of how much hate and ugliness exists in this world, you need not look further than social media. My feed on Facebook and Twitter is constantly riddled with it. Backhanded comments. Name-calling. Threats of violence. Political bashing. Racism. Sexism. ...

MARQUETTE - The Marquette Regional History Center has grown by about 115 pounds, but those pounds contain a lot of history.Jim Gleason, who formerly worked for WDMJ AM, has donated a 1948 Gates Radio Model SA50 dual-speech input console used at that station to the center.Gleason, now chair of ...