ESCANABA — Players de Noc is gearing up for two theatrical productions that are coupled together in shows that will run for two weekends, beginning Friday, Dec. 5. In purchasing a single ticket, an audience member will be granted admission to both "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" and ...

MARQUETTE — Michigan communities will soon benefit from the addition of 50 state troopers who graduated Friday from the 149th Trooper Recruit School. Five of the new troopers will serve in the Upper Peninsula: Nathan Wascher of Woodhaven in Iron Mountain, Brad Renwick of Pentwater and ...

The National Weather Service is predicting blizzard conditions across portions of the Upper Peninsula in the next couple days that could make travel for Thanksgiving "very difficult to impossible." The NWS office in Negaunee issued a blizzard warning from 7 p.m. today through 7 a.m. Thursday ...

CHELSEA, Mich. (AP) — Old Brick Farm, where Larry Doll raises chickens, turkeys and ducks, was fortunate this Thanksgiving season. Doll's small farm west of Detroit had no cases of bird flu, despite an ongoing outbreak that killed more than 2 million U.S. turkeys in the past three months ...

(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) LANSING — Michigan’s Gun Violence Prevention Task Force is calling on the state to ban assault weapons, close a concealed pistol license ...

ESCANABA — With no mail delivery on Thanksgiving, the Daily Press will not publish a newspaper Thursday. The Daily Press office will close early, at 3 p.m., on Wednesday and remain closed all day Thursday for the holiday. Normal business hours of 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. will resume Friday.