DDA's Girls Night Out offers another kind of hunting

By: Terri Castelaz

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 ...

November 8, 2025

Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP payments

By: By DAVID A. LIEB, MICHAEL CASEY, SCOTT BAUER and MIKE CATALINI

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 ...

November 8, 2025

Fifty years later, author separates Edmund Fitzgerald fact from folklore

By: By Robin Washington

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 ...

November 8, 2025

Next up: Musgrave to have bigger role after Kraft's injury

By: STEVE MEGARGEE

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — When the Green Bay Packers decided to take a couple of tight ends in the first two days of the 2023 draft, they selected Luke Musgrave a round before they struck gold with Tucker Kraft. Kraft's rise to stardom resulted ...

November 8, 2025

MHSAA Football

MHSAA Football Friday, Nov. 7 ELEVEN PLAYER Division 8 Bark River-Harris 41, Iron Mountain 20 EIGHT PLAYER Division 1 Norway 58, Pickford 12 Blanchard Montabella 26, Merrill 0 Saturday, Nov. 8 ELEVEN PLAYER Division 4 Big Rapids 48, ...

November 8, 2025

Flivvers capture 4th straight district title

By: JERRY DeROCHE

KINGSFORD – The story of the 2025 Kingsford Flivvers volleyball team had been mostly told entering Thursday night’s MHSAA Division 2 District 33 final against Negaunee. Coming into the season, the Flivvers had lost a historic class of six ...

November 8, 2025