WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday fired his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, after mounting criticism over her leadership of the department, including the handling of the administration’s immigration crackdown and disaster response. Trump, who said he ...

ESCANABA — Pregnant women and guardians of newborns can apply for a “prescription” of debt-free financial aid with no strings attached and no income requirement. A press conference yesterday discussed the launch of RxKids into the entire Upper Peninsula. The program was first ...

A coalition of Wisconsin environmental advocacy groups has filed a lawsuit challenging an administrative law judge’s decision to uphold the Department of Natural Resource’s permit approval to reroute the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline across northern Wisconsin. The petition, filed Feb. 23 in ...

CALUMET – Four sled dog races concluded this weekend in Laurium, Copper Harbor and Eagle Harbor. On Friday evening, spectators lined 5th Street in downtown Calumet to watch the start of the CopperDog events for 2026. After a presentation of the Canadian and American flags by some young ...

The US Forest Service is proposing a massive project in a national forest in Michigan's Upper Peninsula that would log land roughly the size of Detroit, expand gravel mining and build roads. The Silver Branch Vegetation Management Project would span about 40 miles from north to south on the ...

An environmental cleanup is underway in and around Saugatuck in Allegan County after a large spill of polystyrene plastic pellets, some of which entered the Kalamazoo River and adjacent wetlands. The Michigan Department of Transportation closed a section of northbound I-196 Thursday night to ...