ESCANABA — It’s time to make like a tree and order your tickets to BAY-CON, McFly. To mark its fifth year, BAY-CON will be a two-day event with events running May 1-2 at Bay College in Escanaba. The event will feature a large vendor space where attendees can purchase items like toys, ...

FLORENCE, Wis. — The Florence Visitor Center is offering snowshoes rentals for offsite daily use. Cost is $10 for adults and $5 for ages 12 and younger for a same-day return by 3 p.m., or they can be rented for multiple days at $20 per adult and $10 for 12 and younger. All offsite rentals ...

ESCANABA — Two people were injured in a fire Saturday morning in Harbor Tower, Escanaba's tallest building and a subsidized housing facility with 175 units. Escanaba Public Safety was dispatched to 110 S. Fifth St. before daybreak Saturday on reports of a smell of smoke and a smoke alarm ...

MARQUETTE — The Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster occurred on Nov. 3, 1926. Fifty-one men lost their lives and 41 of them are remain buried at the site of the cave in. To commemorate the 100th anniversary, the Marquette Regional History Center will host Digitization Days, where community members ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — The Prom Dress Swap will return next week to the Dickinson County Library in Iron Mountain. The 16th-annual event will run from 2 p.m. Friday through 4:30 p.m. Sunday, March 8. Area teens are invited to select a dress, along with shoes and accessories, during regular ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei died after a major attack by Israel and the United States, Iranian state media confirmed early Sunday, throwing the future of the Islamic Republic into doubt and raising the risk of regional ...