LANSING – On Friday, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed three bipartisan bills that will support Michigan’s small businesses by lowering costs and honor service members who lost their lives in the line of duty. Specifically, this package includes a bill that eliminates unnecessary red tape, ...

ESCANABA — Kelli van Ginhoven (D) of Escanaba has declared her intent and filed to run for District 38 Michigan Senate in 2026. A near life-long resident of Delta County, Kelli van Ginhoven is currently the vice chair of the Delta County Board of Commissioners. She assumed office in a ...

HOUGHTON — A wolf on Isle Royale that had been going into campsites for human food has been killed after other measures to discourage it failed, park officials said. Managers at the Lake Superior island became concerned earlier this summer with the activities of at least two wolves known to ...

Courtesy photo A resident of Christian Park Village in Escanaba plays a game on the midway at the U.P. State Fair last week. About two dozen residents were able to attend the fair because of fundraisers by staff at the facility.

Michigan Department of Natural Resources The oldest known lake trout in the Great Lakes, 62 years old at the time of capture, was recently documented by researchers at the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Marquette Fisheries Research Station. This fish was collected from Klondike ...

ESCANABA — The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) with Menominee Delta Schoolcraft Community Action Agency is scheduled for distribution in Menominee and Delta Counties in September, 2025. The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) is for residents who are 18 years of age or older ...