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WNMU-TV 13 gets $576K grant from Public Media Bridge Fund

MARQUETTE — WNMU-TV 13 at Northern Michigan University has been awarded a $576,532 grant from the Public Media Bridge Fund to stabilize operations for the coming year, as the station transitions toward a more sustainable operating model. The Bridge Fund was established in response to the ...

Full evening planned Thursday for Kingsford Christmas event

KINGSFORD — The Christmas event in Kingsford keeps getting bigger and bigger. “This event is becoming a really big thing for this community,” organizer Jennifer Castro said. “A lot people reach out to me, even at the end of the school year, asking about the next event. Kids are ...

Three adults injured, two critically, in Iron Mountain fire

IRON MOUNTAIN — Three people were injured — two critically — in a fire Sunday morning at 411 Fourth St. in Iron Mountain. A structure fire with possible entrapment was reported at 7:38 a.m., with two occupants able to get out of the structure before the Iron Mountain Fire Department ...

Russian cargo jet grounded 16 years in Upper Peninsula may soon fly again

(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) One of the Upper Peninsula’s most enduring sagas — the grounding of a Russian cargo jet marooned near Marquette for 16 years — may soon come ...

Judge on trial for aiding immigrant told staffer she’d take ‘the heat’

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Prosecutors played audio recordings Monday as they tried to show jurors that a Wisconsin judge knew what was at stake earlier this year when she directed an immigrant to a private door while federal agents were in the courthouse to arrest the man. "I'll get the heat," ...

More than 300 graduate midyear from Michigan Tech

HOUGHTON – The campus of Michigan Technological University was covered in snow, but more than 300 undergraduate students blazed a trail Saturday and for some it was multiple years in the making. The university had its Midyear Commencement on Saturday, and the varsity gym in Tech’s Student ...