ESCANABA — Based in a small town in Wisconsin but with a mill in Carney in the Upper Peninsula, the business of Performance — begun by a father and son duo in 1981 — has evolved from strictly pallet recycling into a manufacturer of multiple shipping solutions and other wood ...
IRONWOOD – In September, Aspirus Health made the decision to change the obstetrics model in Ironwood at the end of the year. The announcement brought heated responses from several state legislators in Lansing and the Michigan Nurses Association, but Aspirus cites a number of reasons for the ...
LANSING – New research published in Nature Scientific Reports reveals how gray wolves in Isle Royale National Park seasonally alter their habitat preferences to align with beavers’ habitat preferences, a shift that might have implications for the island’s ecosystem. Isle Royale is a ...
KINGSFORD — A person died early Saturday in a fire in an apartment building in Kingsford. Kingsford Public Safety officers on patrol discovered the active structure fire at 229 E. Breitung Ave. about 1:26 a.m. Saturday, Kingsford Public Safety Department Director Brandon Rutter said in a ...
ESCANABA — Homelessness isn't a distant issue. “I get the phone calls constantly, all the time, from ‘I don’t know where to go’ to ‘Me and my children are sleeping in our car,’” said Teresa Boscarino, executive director of the Abundant Life Mission shelter in Menominee. ...
ESCANABA — Several Upper Peninsula lawmakers are seeking to rename a stretch of U.S. 41 in Menominee County to honor a soldier killed in Iraq in 2007: Spc. David Anthony Wilkey Jr., who was raised in Wilson and still has family in the area. Michigan House Bill No. 4351, introduced in April ...