Opinion
Peace isn’t the same as a deal
Local columns
House Speaker Mike Johnson, a quick study in the art of laying it on thick, announced that he was teaming up with Israel's Knesset speaker to invite parliamentary leaders from around the world to jointly nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize — and for nothing less than inaugurating "a new ...
Supreme Court will consider if regular pot smokers can own guns
Local columns
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider whether people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally own guns, the latest firearm case to come before the court since its 2022 decision expanding gun rights. President Donald Trump's administration asked the justices to ...
A week to celebrate the region’s forest products
Editorial
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources joins the nation in celebrating Sunday through Saturday as Forest Products Week. Wisconsin has 17 million acres of public and private forested land that provides raw material to the forest products industry, the DNR states in a news release. ...
Almanac for Oct. 21, 2025
Local columns
Today is Tuesday, Oct. 21, the 294th day of 2025. There are 71 days left in the year. Today in history: In 2014, Paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide for shooting and killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The conviction was later upgraded to murder; ...
Who were police looking for in Seney Township?
Editorial
Although it’s not entirely clear what they were doing, a handful of police agencies spent most of last week poking around wooded areas in and around northern Seney Township in Schoolcraft County last week. We do know investigators have said they were looking for human remains, perhaps ...