IRON MOUNTAIN — Friday marked the eighth-annual Spread Goodness Day. First National Bank & Trust employees continued its tradition of taking part by surprising area emergency/urgent care workers with grab-and-go foods, as well as making special donations to local animal shelters. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed into law legislation funding the government through the end of September, ending the threat of a partial government shutdown and capping off a struggle in Congress that deeply divided Democrats. Harrison Fields, White House principal ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — While Michigan State University Extension has its roots deep in agriculture, that is not all the Extension does. The system dates back to 1862 when the Morrill Acts created the land grant system. The law specified the mission of certain institutions: to focus on the teaching ...

The news Thursday that cougar cubs had turned up in the Upper Peninsula — Michigan’s first confirmed wild cubs in more than a century — sparked both elation and worry. The elation came that a female cougar may have actually made the 900-plus-miles journey from most likely the Black ...

U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., has joined Senate colleagues in raising alarm about plans by the Trump administration to cut nearly 20% of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ workforce. In a letter to VA Secretary Doug Collins, Peters voiced strong opposition to the Department of ...

IRON MOUNTAIN – Northern Lights YMCA Dickinson Center’s annual third grade swim program is underway with nearly 375 children expected to participate throughout the next few weeks. According to the CDC, about one in five people who die from drowning are children, and for every child who ...