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Courthouse closed Wednesday, Thursday

IRON MOUNTAIN — Dickinson County Courthouse will be closed Wednesday and Thursday for the New Year’s holiday. Regular courthouse hours will resume Friday.

Registration to begin for master gardener course

IRON MOUNTAIN — Michigan State University Extension will offer a Foundations of Gardening — FOG — course for those who wish to apply to the Master Gardener Program and those seeking horticultural training for personal reasons. Classes will begin Feb. 5 and go through a practice session ...

Michigan AmeriCorps programs relaunch after funding restored

Advocates are applauding the return of federal taxpayer funding for AmeriCorps programs in Michigan. This comes after months of uncertainty for their future – uncertainty that began with Trump administration efforts to cut what it deemed “wasteful” spending through the The Department of ...

Goose-gassing, spearfishing among outdoors policy changes in 2025

(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) In 2025, Michigan expanded underwater spearfishing, simplified turkey hunting and changed who can kill a buck, but the state has yet to make a ...

Winter ‘cyclone’ hampers holiday travel

A powerful winter storm swept east from the Plains on Sunday, driven by what meteorologists described as an intense cyclone that is taking aim at much of the country with a mixture of snow, ice, rain and strong winds. “Part of the storm system is getting heavy snow, other parts of the storm ...