Moving firewood when you camp, hunt or head out for a weekend getaway means you risk carrying tree-killing insects and diseases to new places. Invasive pests can crawl out, infesting trees and carrying diseases that can forever change the landscape of the places you love. According to the ...

A pair of west end fisherman reportedly owe their lives to the fast action of a unit of the Marquette County Sheriff’s Office. This particular drama unfolded Wednesday evening out on Deer Lake near Ishpeming. At 8:33 p.m., the Marquette County Sheriff’s Special Operations Unit was ...

If anyone had thoughts that Marquette’s Gaza war protesters were going to disappear after Northern Michigan University’s spring commencement was over, what went on in downtown Wednesday should have dispelled those ideas. While it wasn’t a huge number, an energenic group of ...

We are glad to see Postmaster General Louis DeJoy finally err on the side of reason. DeJoy has committed to pausing changes planned at the Kingsford U.S. Postal Service processing location that would move a portion of its operations to a facility in Green Bay, Wisconsin. This news came ...

Hats off to both the Northern Michigan University administration and the school’s faculty union for successfully concluding negotiations under a wage reopener approved several years ago. The recent memorandum of understanding stipulates a 6.25% wage increase in the upcoming fiscal year that ...

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is raising awareness that more loving foster families are needed to temporarily care for children while the state works to reunify them safely with their parents during Foster Care Month. “We are thankful for the thousands of families ...