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08/29/2025

MARINETTE — The Marinette County District Attorney’s Office has charged Tylor Robert Birch, 21, of Marinette, with second-degree reckless homicide in connection with the drowning death of 13-year-old Jakob Bowerman. According to the criminal complaint, the incident took place on Aug. 20 at the M...

08/29/2025

LANSING – On Thursday, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency for Houghton and Ontonagon counties after an extreme rainfall event caused widespread flooding, severely damaged roads and infrastructure, and exhausted local response capabilities. Local resources were deployed diligently ...

08/29/2025

MARQUETTE — The continuing battle against sea lampreys soon will come to locations in the local area. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service assessment crew will conduct work off the mouth of Five Mile Creek in Alger County between Sept. 9-18 to estimate the abundance of sea lampreys. The information ga...

08/29/2025

MENOMINEE – A fatal shooting took place Thursday morning at a residence in Harris Township, leading to the death of one adult male. “This was an isolated incident and there is no ongoing danger to the public,” said the Michigan State Police in a press release. At approximately 12:19 a.m., troo...

08/29/2025

By JIM ANDERSON Iron Mountain Daily News Legislation sponsored by state representatives from the Upper Peninsula would create a separate Natural Resources Commission to oversee hunting and fishing rules for the region. Under the bills, the U.P. NRC would have exclusive authority to regulate the taki...

08/29/2025

MUNISING — Besides the Munising Mustangs themselves, three Upper Peninsula schools made the MHSAA eight-player playoffs last fall in its bigger-schools grouping, Division 1. And Munising will be playing all three of them this fall — Ishpeming, Norway and Pickford — along with northern Lower Pe...

08/29/2025

Munising Mustangs MHSAA Division 1 (8-player) Great Lakes Eight — East All times EDT Home games in ALL CAPITALS Thurs., Aug. 28, 7 p.m. NORTH CENTRAL Sat., Sept. 6, 1:30 p.m. at Lake Linden-Hubbell Fri., Sept. 12, 7 p.m. RUDYARD Sat., Sept. 20, 1 p.m. at Ishpeming Fri., Sept. 26, 7 p.m. at St. Ign...

08/29/2025

MARQUETTE — Negaunee and Superior Central posted victories on a busy night of high school volleyball matches on Tuesday. Negaunee won at Westwood 3-0, while Superior Central swept Gwinn at home and Marquette lost in three sets at Sault Ste. Marie. All five of these teams from the area take a break...

08/29/2025

EBEN — Superior Central High School showed that not having a varsity football team for one season doesn’t have to affect its ability to have one further down the line. That’s good news for a school like Gwinn, which pulled back from having a varsity team this year in favor of only fielding a j...

08/29/2025

ISHPEMING — River Rock Lanes in Ishpeming is getting ready to start its fall league season with all of its adult leagues starting within the next two weeks, some as soon as the day after Labor Day. Proprietor Clay Sandberg reports it’s not too late to join a league, whether as an individual, may...

08/28/2025

By CRAIG MAUGER and BETH LeBLANC The Detroit News Michigan lawmakers awarded $15 million to a nonprofit organization to build housing for workers in the Upper Peninsula, but some of the money has benefited a project offering apartments that will cost as much as $2,900 a month and is led by a develop...

08/28/2025

MARQUETTE – Missing Marquette woman Eileen Mandel was found deceased at around 10:35 p.m. on Tuesday night. The pickup truck she was driving was located on a two-track road in Negaunee Township at around 8:50 p.m. with her body found in the woods nearby. The Marquette Police Department does not su...

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