ESCANABA — Snowshoeing, the winter sport known for providing a strenuous workout and giving pedestrians access to places that are otherwise difficult to reach in the winter, has a relatively simple learning curve. Through the Delta County Snow Trek program, anyone over the age of 18 with a ...

RON MOUNTAIN — The Dickinson County Library plans these activities in January: ≤ Book Club: 2 p.m. today at the Dickinson County Library in Iron Mountain. Adults are invited to discuss the January book club selection, “Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine” by Gail Honeymoon. New ...

L’ANSE — Baraga County will be able to make additional improvements at Point Abbaye. The county received a $300,000 grant from the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund for the nature site, clerk Wendy Goodreau told the county board at its meeting Monday. The next phase will include ...

ESCANABA — It’s been half a century since the William Bonifas Fine Arts Center was founded in 1974. The arts center, which occupies the Romanesque structure originally built to house a Catholic school auditorium on the northwest corner of South 7th Street and 1st Avenue South, is ...

HOUGHTON — Evan Dixon will undergo psychological evaluation for competency to stand trial for murder and for criminal responsibility related to his charges for a November murder in downtown Houghton. Dixon, 59, of Houghton appeared via Zoom for the hearing on his requests in 97th District ...

ESCANABA — The amount of detectable DNA from the virus responsible for COVID-19 in Escanaba’s wastewater has once again ticked upward, but the full effect of the holiday season is not yet known. According to the Michigan Sentinel Wastewater Epidemiology Evaluation Project (SWEEP), the ...