On Wednesday, the Dafter Fire Department and the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a multi-car accident on M-28 near Soo LIne Rd. When emergency vehicles arrived, they were met with white-out conditions and the road was blocked due to a 9-car pile up. Dafter requested mutual aid assistance […]

McClellan Realty, LLC says they plan to renovate a vacant, historic building in downtown Sault Ste. Marie. A $1.5 million grant from the Michigan Community Revitalization Program and additional brownfield grant funds from EGLE will go towards renovating the site. EGLE says the MAC Building, located downtown across from the […]

ESCANABA, MI – More people are expected to attend this inaugural music festival than live in the actual city where the event is taking place. The first ever “Northern Lights Music Fest” has just been announced for this July in Escanaba in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, population 12,000. The event will […]

Thanks to the courage of additional victims who came forward, Cody Mathieu McCoy is in jail again with more drug, sex crimes and human trafficking charges. In our original article, with information from the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office on March 6 regarding McCoy’s original arrest, the Sheriff stated, “TRIDENT has […]

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives is offering up to $5,000 for information about a suspicious fire at the Enbridge pipeline maintenance shop and storage area back in August. They’re looking for any information that helps them identify and arrest whoever is responsible for the suspected arson at […]

DETROIT – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, revises schedule following public scoping for Enbridge Line 5 Tunnel permit application review. Enbridge Energy seeks authorization to cross the Straits of Mackinac and impact adjacent wetlands for construction of the Line 5 Tunnel. The Detroit District, responsible for evaluating […]

Courtesy of Prosecutor Robert Stratton III Clifford Earl Bailey was sentenced to serve a prison term of 24 months to 10 years for his convictions of Child Abuse in the Second Degree and Domestic Violence. Mr. Bailey was convicted after a three-day jury trial on April 21, 2021. The jury […]

In a job that sees violence daily throughout the state with many assaults on staff not making it to court, Prosecutor Rob Stratton has stepped up and sent a message. Kalvin Washington was found guilty of 2 counts of Assault on a Prison Employee on March 22, 2023 as a […]

Chippewa County has three fewer predators following sentences handed out by Judge James Lambros of the 50th Circuit Court. William David Brice II, 44, from Sault Ste. Marie, previously plead guilty to three counts of Child Sexually Abusive Activity. He was sentenced on March 14, 2023 to 20 years in […]

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT, is investing about $1.1 million to resurface .36  miles of I-75 Business Spur (BS) (Ashmun Street) in the city of Sault Ste. Marie. The work will include asphalt milling and resurfacing, asphalt overlays, brick paver crosswalk removal, drainage structure repairs, concrete curb […]