Business owners in downtown Ishpeming owners are taking advantage of a grant program designed to provide money to improve the overall look and performance of the area. The Facade Improvement Grant Program is being run by the city’s Downtown Development Authority. In a nutshell, the program ...

Are you interested in the arts? A lot of us are. Indeed, thousands of us spend time and treasure in Marquette’s Mattson Lower Harbor Park each summer at a well-known event known as Art on the Rocks. What is less known is where Art on the Rocks comes from, who started it? The Lake ...

Fewer motorists in Michigan are taking care to buckle up in their vehicles, state officials advise. Michigan’s seat belt use rate declined slightly in 2023, to its lowest level in almost two decades, according to results from a grant-funded direct observation study done by Michigan State ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has asked lawmakers for an $80.7 billion state budget for 2025, kicking off the appropriations process in Lansing that has to wrap up by the Oct. 1 start of the state’s fiscal year. The governor’s proposal is about $2 billion less than the current budget, which was ...

We were extraordinarily pleased this week, along with a great many others in Superiorland, to learn that Northern Michigan University’s enrollment report for the winter semester shows an increase of 330 students, or 5.3%, compared to the same time in 2023. The university’s overall head ...

Tuesday’s classes at Michigan State University were canceled and a remembrance gathering planned for the three students who lost their lives in a shooting last year — Brian Fraser, Arielle Anderson and Alexandria Verner. Tuesday also is when Michigan’s sweeping new gun regulations take ...