IRON MOUNTAIN — Ladies will soon flood downtown Iron Mountain to do their own hunting at Girls Night Out. Iron Mountain Downtown Development Authority will host its annual shopping event from 5 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday. This year’s GNO signature sponsor is First Bank. “The evening ...

BOSTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration's emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown, even though residents in some states already have received the funds. A judge had given the ...

Monday is the 50th anniversary of one of the most tragic and well-known shipwrecks on the Great Lakes, the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The tragedy particularly resonates locally, with Superior being the ship’s last port of call, and “the wives and the sons and the daughters” of ...

An 18-year-old Kiel, Wis., woman was injured in a traffic crash at about 1:11 p.m. Friday on U.S. 2 near Bates-Amasa Road in Bates Township, said Iron County Sheriff Ryan Boehmke. The woman was the driver of a 2016 Chevrolet Trax that rear-ended a truck that was towing a lowboy trailer, ...

MANISTIQUE – The hospital in Manistique is offering free meals in its cafeteria to local families affected by the recent benefit changes in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, as well as government workers hit by the shutdown. Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital on Monday ...

The past couple of years have seen generally slim pickings in the region in terms of avian visitors that can bring color to the otherwise drab palette of winter and make it worth the expense of putting out seed and suet. Last year I wrote in late December "no purple finches, no evening or ...