RON MOUNTAIN — Former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, says he is passionate about literacy. Rogers emphasized reading skills during a campaign stop this week in Iron Mountain, citing results from a 2024 fourth-grade reading assessment in which ...

GLADSTONE —Preliminary plans have been made for a new housing subdivision that would add 24 homes atop the bluff in Gladstone. The Gladstone City Commission set a hearing about the project for its next regular meeting on Aug. 25. Phil and Lee’s Homes owns the property near W.C. Cameron ...

ROCKLAND — The Ontonagon County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the death of a Wisconsin man in what it described as a “mine accident” Thursday near Rockland. A deputy was dispatched at 2:20 p.m. Thursday to assist EMS personnel at the Highpoint Gravel Pit in Rockland Township, ...

ESCANABA — An investigation is ongoing into the stabbing of a woman that occurred Monday in Escanaba. Escanaba Public Safety officers were dispatched at approximately 7:32 a.m. Monday to Lot 107 of Fairview Estates, located at 1401 North 23rd Street, on a report of a stabbing in progress. ...

R. R. Branstrom | Daily Press Adeline Bjork, aged 15, of Gladstone, gracefully slows her mount Ranger from a trot to a walk while balancing an egg on a spoon during the “horse fun show” on Monday. The event was the first of the Upper Peninsula State fair, which continues through ...

MARQUETTE – The Michigan Department of Natural Resources, with help from many conservation partners, is halfway through completion of a $5 million grant project to remove 27 stream barriers, including 16 DNR-managed dams. Efforts to date have reconnected more than 140 miles of streams. Future ...