IRON MOUNTAIN — In 2025, the Dickinson Area Economic Development Alliance launched Belong Dickinson, a living and working initiative to raise awareness of the quality of life in the Dickinson County area. Leading economic development requires providing resources and connecting businesses, ...

(Editor’s note: The Daily News, in cooperation with three other Upper Peninsula newspapers, is running companion pieces to Ogden Newspapers’ “America at 250” series, with a focus on the U.P.’s role in the country's development. For this week’s “America at 250” story, see page ...

KINGSFORD — What started as an effort to clear out years of accumulated storage items has become an opportunity for the Dickinson-Iron Community Services Agency to raise funds for programs that help area residents. DICSA will host a rummage sale fundraiser from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday ...

GERMFASK TOWNSHIP — A Germfask man died Sunday night after the dirt bike he was on crashed into a parked pickup truck on M-77 in Schoolcraft County. Michigan State Police troopers from the Manistique post were sent about 10:50 p.m. Sunday to M-77 near Grant Road in Germfask Township, ...

It’s going to be harder to predict when severe weather will peak in Wisconsin this summer, after an unusual spring that had Mother Nature playing “precipitation ping-pong,” according to the Wisconsin State Climatology Office. “Our office has nicknamed it — where we seem to go back ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will appoint a new acting director for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services after it was announced Monday that Elizabeth Hertel was stepping down as director at the end of the month. Whitmer will appoint Amy Epkey as acting director of the ...