FELCH TOWNSHIP — What started with a 3-year-old’s wish to replace withered flowers at a cemetery gravesite has blossomed into Easton’s Petal Promise, a community project dedicated to spreading kindness one bouquet at a time. Easton Gustafson, daughter of Rachel and Bradley Gustafson ...
MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University truck driving school has been shuttered, courtesy of the Michigan Department of State office. The state agency served NMU with a cease-and-desist order Wednesday, mandating that the NMU Commercial Driver’s License Truck Driving Program halt ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — Permits will again be offered to archery hunters as Iron Mountain tries to match or even exceed last year’s record harvest of 112 deer from within city limits. The size of the herd remains troublesome, City Manager Jordan Stanchina acknowledged. There will be no changes ...
HOUGHTON — Former U.S. Rep. Philip Edward Ruppe, an Upper Peninsula native who served six consecutive terms in the U.S. Congress, died Monday in Bethesda, Maryland, at age 99. Ruppe represented Michigan’s 11th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from Jan. 3, 1967, ...
A conservative group is launching a new advertising campaign in Michigan's U.S. Senate race, backing Republican Mike Rogers as one of its top candidates for the 2026 election. AFP Action made the announcement this week that it is investing $5.6 million in advertising across seven competitive U.S. Senate battleground states, including Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Alaska, Montana and Iowa. Rogers is the Republican nominee for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat and will face Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in November. The group’s Michigan ad, titled “Workhorse,” portrays ...
(AP) — Oil-rich Saudi Arabia, nuclear power Pakistan and Turkey, which has NATO's second-largest army and a rapidly growing defense industry, signed a mutual defense agreement on Friday. The deal stipulates that an armed attack on either of the three countries will be regarded as an ...
