Strong storms brought winds and heavy rain to the area Tuesday afternoon, causing a number of downed wires such as this one on South Lake Antoine Road in Breitung Township. Breitung Township firefighters had to block the road for a time while workers repaired the damage. Iron Mountain ...
FLORENCE, Wis. — Florence and Marinette county voters effectively chose their sheriffs for the next four years in Tuesday’s primary election, picking Dan Miller to replace retiring Florence County Sheriff Jeff Rickaby and retaining incumbent Marinette County Sheriff Jerry Sauve. Miller ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Gov. Scott Walker will have to defeat Wisconsin’s top education official to win a third term, while U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin faces a longtime state legislator as she tries to keep the seat under Democratic control. Both Republicans are closely tied to ...
CRYSTAL FALLS — An Iron River man accused of threatening to “shoot up” the Ski Brule resort in February has accepted a plea deal on a reduced charge and will be sentenced Sept. 17 in Iron County Trial Court. Michael Steven Gordon, 23, pleaded no contest to lying to a police officer in a ...
NORWAY — A suspect remains at large after a reported armed robbery about 9:15 p.m. Tuesday at the Norway Quick Stop gas station on U.S. 2, Norway Police Department officials said. The suspect brandished a black long gun and took an undetermined amount of money before fleeing the store on ...
MARENISCO TOWNSHIP — Upper Peninsula legislators are disappointed in a decision by the Michigan Department of Corrections to close the Ojibway Correctional Facility in Gogebic County. The agency announced the closure Tuesday to meet a cut of more than $19 million in the prison budget. State ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — Debbie McKinzie wants to teach teenage girls how to tap into their “inner warrior.” Her course offered this Sunday, “Finding Your Young Inner Warrior,” aim to build confidence, motivation, goal setting and meditation before the start of the new school ...
DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Republican governor candidate Bill Schuette on Wednesday announced former state Rep. Lisa Posthumus Lyons as his running mate, a key step for the current state attorney general on the road to the November election. Lyons joined Schuette at a morning campaign event in ...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is asking the federal government to reconsider a decision by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to deny individual assistance to three counties in the Upper Peninsula. Houghton, Gogebic and Menominee counties suffered severe flood damage ...
The Dickinson County Healthcare System OB/GYN staff, along with Michigan-Wisconsin Family Practice Associates, has earned the 2018 Maternity Care Excellence Award from the Economic Alliance for Michigan, a nonprofit group comprised of Michigan’s largest employers and unions. The new award, ...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan officials say they will appeal a federal judge's ruling against eliminating straight-party voting. The Detroit News reports Secretary of State Ruth Johnson on Monday filed a notice to appeal. That came two weeks after U.S. District Judge Gershwin Drain said ...
IRON RIVER — Aspirus Iron River Hospital is joining with iNDIGO Health Partners, a leading private hospital medicine group based in Traverse City, to provide telehealth hospitalist services for night coverage starting Aug. 8. Working with onsite staff, iNDIGO telehealth providers will see ...
FLORENCE, Wis. — The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection requires a permit for all lodging facilities in the state. Lodging facilities come in many forms. Although not an all-inclusive list, common examples of lodging facilities requiring a permit include ...
Brian Hall of Iron Mountain waters the flower garden in the parking lot on Hughitt Street in downtown Iron Mountain. That task might not be needed today, as rain and possible thunderstorms are in the forecast. It also should usher in a break from the hot weather, with temperatures in the 70s ...
FLORENCE, Wis. — Dan Miller, an Aurora resident and detective with the Marinette County Sheriff’s Office, won Tuesday’s Republican primary for Florence County sheriff over current Florence Chief Deputy David Gribble. Since no Democrats filed for the seat, Miller will be unopposed in the ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — The survival of Dickinson County’s hospital is the most important consideration as talks continue on a possible sale to LifePoint Health, a county commissioner said Monday. “We need that facility where it’s at, running as it’s supposed to,” said Joe Stevens, a ...
CRYSTAL FALLS — The fate of a historic fish hatchery in western Iron County is up in the air, with the Iron County Board considering turning over the property to the U.S. Forest Service or Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Cooks Run in Stambaugh Township was built in the mid-1930s ...
CRYSTAL FALLS — Cases against two Caspian residents accused in a July methamphetamine bust continue to move through the Iron County Trial Court system. Stephen Scott Horton, 52, decided Monday to postpone his preliminary examination to Sept. 4, while his co-defendant, 44-year-old Dana ...
MARENISCO — The Ojibway Correctional Facility in Gogebic County’s Marenisco Township will close Dec. 1 as the prisoner population continues to decline statewide, Michigan Department of Corrections officials announced this morning. The facility has 203 employees, and MDOC officials said ...
NIAGARA, Wis. — A 2011 Niagara High School graduate will be feature on MTV’s reality show “Are You The One?” Cali Trepp, 24, now of Chicago, will be on the new season that airs at 9 p.m. Central time Wednesday. A cast of 11 men and 11 women, who claim to have “dysfunctional ...