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Tiffany, pilot swim to safety after plane makes emergency landing in lake

WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, a candidate for Wisconsin governor, wiped away tears and laughed while sharing Sunday how thankful he was to survive after the small plane he was in made a harrowing late-night emergency landing into a lake Saturday night. The pilot “said we are ...

Supreme Court rejects mail ballot restrictions

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump's bid to restrict mail ballots for the midterm elections, capping a flurry of last-minute legal action with voting already underway. The decision allows states to continue sending out mail ballots under the same ...

Plan to repeal national forest ‘roadless rule’ under scrutiny

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 ...

School, township, county meetings set this week

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 ...

NWS issues frost advisory

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 ...

‘I feel like his spirit is here’

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 ...