MARQUETTE — The “big bear” of Upper Peninsula festivals returns April 11 for its 12th year after taking a brief hiatus in 2025 due to the opening of The Trestle Building. Ore Dock Brewing Company’s Festival of the Angry Bear is a spirited and much-anticipated street festival that has ...

MARQUETTE — The Upper Peninsula Construction Council, in partnership with UP Michigan Works! and local education agencies, ISDs and RESAs, is now accepting applications for the 2026 Building Trades Summer Camp. This five-week, hands-on program introduces high school students to careers in ...

SAULT STE. MARIE — Alana Jewel Miller-Schofield, a dedicated fisheries researcher and conservation advocate, has been selected as the graduating student speaker for Lake Superior State University’s commencement ceremony Saturday, May 2. A tribal member of the Keweenaw Bay Indian ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A three-judge panel in Wisconsin on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit brought by Democratic voters that sought to redraw the battleground state's Republican-friendly congressional boundary lines ahead of the November midterm election. The decision can be appealed to the ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The president of the University of Wisconsin system said in letters obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday that he has been told to either resign or be fired, but has been given no reason and won't step aside. Jay Rothman, president of the multicampus ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — The Wild Rivers Invasive Species Coalition will become a non-profit with a new name later this year using a $70,000 state grant to help make the transition. The group will share in a total of $2.4 million that the Michigan Invasive Species Grant Program recently awarded to ...