IRON MOUNTAIN — A Vulcan couple got the best New Year’s gift — the first baby born in 2026 at Marshfield Medical Center-Dickinson. Anna and Andrew Hutchinson of Vulcan welcomed a son, Archer Lynn, at 9:57 a.m. Jan. 1, 2026. He weighed 5 pounds, 11 ounces and measured 18 inches long. ...

Respondents to an annual Michigan college survey of overused and misused words and phrases say " 6-7 " is "cooked" and should come to a massive full-stop heading into the new year. Those are among the top 10 words on the 50th annual "Banished Words List," released Thursday by Lake Superior ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration unveiled this week hundreds of millions of dollars each state will receive this fiscal year as part of a massive $50 billion rural health fund baked into Republicans’ “big, beautiful” law. The five-year Rural Health Transformation ...

This week’s Back to the Present is provided by the Jake Menghini Historical Museum in Norway. The undated photo title “Snowbound” was taken by Iron Range Studio of Iron River. The photographer captured a resident digging out what is possibly a Ford Model A from the 1930s in the ...

An emerging technology in lumber could have implications for the forestry industry. Mass timber is a process of strengthening wood, typically by gluing panels together to create dense layers of wood called cross-laminated timber, or CLT. CLT is “essentially plywood on steroids,” ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — A winter weather advisory is in effect through tonight in the western and eastern Upper Peninsula, where 3 to 10 inches of lake effect snow was expected beginning Tuesday night. The Iron Mountain area was expected to see an inch or less of snow, according to the National ...