The legislative earmark reforms championed by Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall, R-Richland Township, during the fraught 2025-26 budget process became law Tuesday after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed the House and Senate’s respective bills into law. Whitmer signed House Bill 4420 and Senate ...

ESCANABA — The City of Escanaba's Recreation Department has received a donation from the Bay de Noc Unitarian Universalist Fellowship for its after-school program at the Catherine Bonifas Civic Center. The funds will be used to purchase hygiene items, school supplies and food/snacks for the ...

ESCANABA – Almost every seat was filled in the Delta County 47th Circuit Courtroom to celebrate the 16th Delta County Drug/Sobriety Court graduation ceremony. Two individuals graduated Nov. 10, marking a total of 53 to complete the program. Judge Steve Parks of the 94th District Court, ...

ESCANABA — Cleanup was underway at the Delta Plaza Mall after a vehicle smashed into an exterior wall Sunday. A dark gray pickup truck Sunday afternoon hit the back side of Dunham’s Sports head-on, just east of the main entrance to L&M Fleet Supply and facing UP North Lanes and Sports ...

(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) In addition to shorter ski seasons, worsening ticks and allergies and shrinking boreal forests, climate change has hit the Great Lakes State in ...

ESCANABA — A local organization wants to create personalized winter gift bundles for LGBTQ+ elders and youth in the community "who may be experiencing isolation, financial strain, housing instability, or a difficult holiday season." Pride de Noc is a relatively new group that formed earlier ...