A northeast Wisconsin anti-poverty nonprofit plans to close later this year amid serious financial challenges and the loss of a government contract. For more than 50 years, Newcap has operated in 10 counties, including Florence, Marinette and Forest in the region. It serves low-income ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — Dickinson County crews earlier this week completed work to clear some of the gravel roads after last week's blizzard but will hold off on any further plowing due to warming temperatures. According to a news release from the Dickinson County Road Commission, Lantz Road was ...

Amid a continued rise in prison assaults, the Michigan Department of Corrections this month launched a new "safe prisons initiative" that aims to improve conditions for inmates and officers alike. Among other things, the initiative seeks to provide improved prisoner programming to promote ...

CRYSTAL FALLS — The Iron County Board will hold a special meeting at 8 a.m. Monday in the courthouse annex, 2 South Sixth St., Crystal Falls. The agenda includes a soil and sedimentation contract extension with the Iron-Baraga Conservation District and central dispatch staffing.

CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — Below Cleveland, in a subterranean world many surface dwellers don't know exists, miners extract a crucial winter mineral — salt. The Whiskey Island salt mine, owned by food giant Cargill, helps supply road salt across the Northeast and Great Lakes, where a colder, ...