EASTERN UPPER PENINSULA — Hundreds of local volunteers honored the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by assembling and distributing over 400 winter emergency preparedness kits, joining hundreds of thousands of Americans across the country in volunteer services in honor of MLK Day this month. The Martin Luther King, Jr., […]

BAY CITY, Mich. – Seventeen Lake Superior State University student-athletes have been named to the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) All-Academic and All-Academic Excellence Teams for the Fall 2022 semester, as announced by the league office on Tuesday. Criteria states the student-athlete must be an active member on the roster […]

The Sault Ste Marie Police Department has released a statement regarding a fatal vehicle-pedestrian accident that occured on 3 Mile Road on January 6, 2023. On January 6th, 2023 around 2255hrs, officers from the Sault Ste. Marie Police Department responded to a personal injury crash involving a motor home and […]

ST. IGNACE  – Mackinac Straits Health System (MSHS) is planning to add a new medical professional office building to help meet future needs for the delivery of health care services in the region. Building plans are underway for a new 20,000 square foot facility. MSHS has received $10 million in […]

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., – The Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan will close to marine traffic beginning 11:59 p.m. January 15, or until commercial traffic ceases, through 12:01 a.m. March 25 to perform critical maintenance. Federal regulation establishes the operating season based on the feasibility of vessels operating during […]

The City of Sault Ste Marie Engineering Department has released its January construction update for calendar year 2023. The Ashmun Bridge Sign has finally been replaced and the 5-year Master Recreation Plan is planned for adoption at the January 16th City Commission meeting.  This will allow us to apply for […]

MACKINAC COUNTY, MI – A Mackinac County man is facing multiple charges stemming from an investigation by Michigan State Police. According to a release from MSP, 59-year-old Timothy Edward Headley of Hessel was arrested on December 9, 2022 on three counts of criminal sexual conduct. Headley’s arrest followed an investigation […]

Sault Ste. Marie, MI — Stop resorting to imprecise, trite, and meaningless words and terms of seeming convenience! You’re taking the lazy way out and only confusing matters by over-relying on inexact, stale, and inane communication! Language monitors across the country and around the world decried the decrepitude and futility of […]

A downstate woman has died in a snowmobile crash in Luce County. The sheriff’s department says the accident happened on M-123 and the Charcoal Grade in McMillian Township at about 6:30 Tuesday night. The 55-year-old woman from Chesterfield Township, MI was trying to cross M-123 to go south into Newberry, […]

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District New Lock at the Soo Project in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan is reauthorized in the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) 2022 on Dec 23, 2022. The project reauthorization amount is $3.219 billion. An authorization sets how much money agencies and […]