The Trump administration announced a proposal last month to remove a Forest Service rule that protects millions of acres of National Forest land throughout the United States from commercial logging and road building. Put in place in 2001, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule applies to land ...
The Iron Mountain Planning Commission will meet at 3:30 p.m. today at Iron Mountain City Hall. Iron Mountain Tree Board will meet at 4 p.m. today at Iron Mountain City Hall. Florence County Board of Education will meet at 5 p.m. today in room 259 of Florence County High School, Florence, Wis. The agenda includes the 2026-27 preliminary budget and a discussion and possible action on high school football. Iron Mountain School Board will meet at 5:30 p.m. today in conference room B117 at 300 W. B St., Iron Mountain. The regular board meeting will be preceded by a finance meeting at 4:45 ...
A frost advisory is in effect for the Dickinson County area from 1 a.m. to 8 a.m. Monday, the National Weather Service said. Temperatures could dip as the low as 30 degrees and sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered, NWS said in an advisory for Ontonagon, Dickinson and southern Houghton counties. If freezing temperatures are observed locally, it would mark the earliest frost this century, according to NWS data from the Iron Mountain-Kingsford Wastewater Treatment Plant. In four of the past five years, the first frost hasn't come until October. The earliest ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — While a veteran who was set to travel on the Upper Peninsula Honor Flight Mission XXIX didn’t get the chance, one guardian made sure his story was told. Michelle Labadie joined this year’s UP Honor Flight as a guardian, more specifically as what the organization ...
State regulators Thursday approved a $74.52 million gas rate hike for DTE Energy customers, which was less than half the total requested. A residential customer with typical usage of 75 hundred cubic feet of gas per month will see a 3.34% bill increase, or $2.87 per month, officials said. The ...
KINGSFORD — Morin Excavating of Niagara, Wis., had the winning bid of $146,190 for work on a Kingsford sewer project on North Cass Avenue. The project includes 315 linear feet of sanitary sewer main and connecting sanitary laterals, along with road and sidewalk removal and restoration. The city council received two other bids. In other business, the council Tuesday: — Expects a visit Oct. 5 from John Holland of the Michigan Rural Water Association, who will discuss an updated water and sewer rate study. The council had requested the new study in May after rejecting a proposed ...
