IRON MOUNTAIN — With no mail delivery on the Labor Day holiday, The Daily News will not publish a newspaper Monday. Daily News offices will close early today, at 3 p.m., and will not be open Monday. Tuesday will have a newspaper as usual, and staff will be available starting at 8 a.m.
ESCANABA — Forty-seven years ago, Upper Peninsula residents took part in a contest that helped give the region one of its most recognizable nicknames: “Yooper.” The contest by The Upper Peninsula Sunday Times — the Sunday edition counterpart to daily newspapers in the region — asked ...
LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan State Police has been designated as a Trust Building Pledge agency committed to focusing on strengthening trust and collaboration between officers and the communities they serve. The achievement is part of the International Association of Chiefs of Police Trust Building Campaign, in which agencies pledge to focus on six key areas: bias-free policing, use of force, leadership and culture, recruitment, hiring and retention, victim services and community relations. The MSP entered the pledge in August 2024 with 36 months to complete it, which it did in ...
EAGLE HARBOR — A remarkable chapter in Great Lakes maritime history will be commemorated in September as the Keweenaw Historical Society marks the 100th anniversary of the wreck of the City of Bangor — and the extraordinary rescue of its cargo of brand-new automobiles. On Sept. 1, the ...
ONTONAGON —The Village of Ontonagon will celebrate its 70th-annual Ontonagon Labor Day Festival with events Saturday through Monday. Ontonagon Village Manager and Labor Day Festival Committee Treasurer Willie DuPont said the celebration is the village and county’s biggest celebration of the year. “To me, this is very unique. I am not from the area, so nobody really has a Labor Day Festival. Everybody does the Fourth of July,” he said. “This being the 70th annual ... it’s the biggest event in the Village of Ontonagon every year, hands down.” Today’s events include an ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — An unexplained Trump administration hold on construction of a state-federal project aimed at preventing invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes was abruptly lifted this week, hours after a call to President Donald Trump by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The Army Corps ...
