ESCANABA — A Rapid River man has pleaded guilty to multiple felony charges after Michigan State Police arrested him on a warrant earlier this year. Michael Elliot Riggers, 28, appeared before Judge John Economopoulos in…
Delta County Board of Commissioners meeting cancelled
ESCANABA — The regular meeting of the Delta County Board of Commissioners that was scheduled to take place this evening…
Public surveys on the Hiawatha National Forest
Gladstone, Mich. — Starting October, 2026, you may encounter employees, partners or contractors conducting public surveys on the Hiawatha National…
Rapid River man pleads no contest to homicide
ESCANABA -- A Rapid River man has pleaded no contest to multiple charges, including homicide, in connection with an alleged…
Custom rod-maker to attend expo
ESCANABA — A man who has been making fishing rods for about 50 years is coming back to Escanaba to…
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U.P. Scores
U.P. scores Friday’s games Football Eight-player Cadillac 43, Escanaba 7 Calumet 44, Gladstone 28 Bark River-Harris 45, Manistique 16 Kingsford 21, Menominee 14 Marquette 19, Petoskey 10 Negaunee 38, Houghton 8 L’Anse 34, Hancock 26 Alpena 40, Sault Ste. Marie 0 Eight-player Powers North Central 42, Felch North Dickinson 34 Rapid River 28, Calumet…
Calumet defeats Gladstone to improve to 5-3
EBEN JUNCTION — The championship match of the Northern Lights League volleyball tournament went right down…
Big Bay de Noc earns NLL volleyball title
Today’s games Cross country Mid-Peninsula Conference at Flat Rock, 4 p.m. Volleyball Big Bay de Noc…
Prep Schedule Oct. 20
Obituaries
Richard D. Luchay
BARK RIVER — Richard D. Luchay, 93, of Bark River, passed away on Friday,…
ESCANABA — Joseph Jay Rappette, age 65 of Escanaba passed away of natural causes on Sunday,…
Joseph J. Rappette
RAPID RIVER — Bonnie Jean Lee, age 82, of Rapid River, passed away early Sunday morning,…
Bonnie Jean Lee
GLADSTONE — James L. Vrbensky, age 92, of Gladstone, passed away on Friday, October 16, 2026…
James L. Vrbensky
Community
Touching grass
Regional News
Haunted Michigan
McCoy earns award from John Deere
University of Michigan runners blitz campus peony garden, preparing hundreds of plants for winter
Spot a bear den? The DNR wants to know
Editorial
Editorial cartoon for Oct. 20, 2026
Editorial cartoon for Oct. 19, 2026
Donald Trump's “assault on the rule of law” is intensifying
Editorial cartoon for Oct. 17, 2026
Local columns
Trump's final humiliation of Lindsey Graham
Almanac for Oct. 20, 2026
A culture of death
Almanac for Oct. 19, 2026
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