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Justices reject requiring higher prices in tax foreclosure sales

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an effort to change tax foreclosure sales to let homeowners to keep more money when their property is sold to recoup unpaid taxes. The high court ruled against a sweeping argument from a Michigan family whose house was sold for less ...

Belong Dickinson promotes quality of life

IRON MOUNTAIN — In 2025, the Dickinson Area Economic Development Alliance launched Belong Dickinson, a living and working initiative to raise awareness of the quality of life in the Dickinson County area. Leading economic development requires providing resources and connecting businesses, ...

UP has last Forest Service nursery producing trees in Eastern Region

(Editor’s note: The Daily News, in cooperation with three other Upper Peninsula newspapers, is running companion pieces to Ogden Newspapers’ “America at 250” series, with a focus on the U.P.’s role in the country's development. For this week’s “America at 250” story, see ...

DICSA rummage sale aims to raise money and clear space

KINGSFORD — What started as an effort to clear out years of accumulated storage items has become an opportunity for the Dickinson-Iron Community Services Agency to raise funds for programs that help area residents. DICSA will host a rummage sale fundraiser from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday ...

Fatal dirt bike crash in Schoolcraft County

GERMFASK TOWNSHIP — A Germfask man died Sunday night after the dirt bike he was on crashed into a parked pickup truck on M-77 in Schoolcraft County. Michigan State Police troopers from the Manistique post were sent about 10:50 p.m. Sunday to M-77 near Grant Road in Germfask Township, according to a news release. Their preliminary investigation indicated a 33-year-old Germfask man was operating a dirt bike on M-77 when he struck a legally parked pickup truck on the shoulder of the roadway. Despite efforts by two citizens, responding troopers and EMS personnel, the man was ...

Wisconsin deals with spring of ‘precipitation ping-pong’

It’s going to be harder to predict when severe weather will peak in Wisconsin this summer, after an unusual spring that had Mother Nature playing “precipitation ping-pong,” according to the Wisconsin State Climatology Office. “Our office has nicknamed it — where we seem to go back ...