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Wednesday, February 5, 2025
CHIPPEWA COUNTY – Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, The Salvation Army – Sault Ste. Marie, and United Way of the Eastern Upper Peninsula work together every year to coordinate a distribution of backpacks and school supplies, assisting 500 plus students in Pre-School through 8th grade. With schools readying […]
A missing jet skier off Drummond Island is safe thanks to the U.S. Coast Guard in Sault Ste. Marie and the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office. The Coast Guard says they found the person just before 10 Saturday night after they got lost after leaving Drummond Island on their jet ski. […]
On August 1, 2020 at approximately 11:30 p.m., a trooper from the Michigan State Police (MSP) Sault Ste. Marie Post conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle on Ashmun Street near Marquette Avenue in the city of Sault Ste. Marie. The driver was identified as a 29-year-old male subject from […]
On August 1, 2020 at approximately 8:30 p.m., troopers from the Michigan State Police (MSP) Sault Ste Marie Post were dispatched to a report of a male subject actively breaking into a residence on E. Avenue D in Newberry. When the troopers arrived on scene, the suspect saw the troopers […]
CHIPPEWA COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) — For over 100 years, War Memorial Hospital in Sault Ste. Marie has remained an independent hospital, but that may be changing soon. Officials said that after two bad financial years in 2017 and 2018, War Memorial Hospital is considering joining a health system. Officials said […]
Mackinaw City police say a Toledo man was arrested on the Mackinac Bridge for drunk driving Friday morning. Police started following the man just south of the bridge. They tried to pull him over, but the man drove onto the Mackinac Bridge. The chase ended about a mile and a […]
Wear your face mask at Mackinac Bridge toll booths. The bridge Twitter account, run by the Michigan Department of Transportation, issued the call on Tuesday, saying drivers need the coverings during transactions, “even though it takes just a few seconds.” “Our collectors interact with thousands of customers each day, so […]
On Wednesday, July 29, at about noon, a trooper from the Michigan State Police (MSP) Sault Ste Marie Post conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle on Seymour St near 4th Avenue in Sault Ste Marie. Following an on-scene investigation, a 25-year-old St. Ignace man was arrested for possession of […]
Late Monday night, Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City, Station St. Ignace, and Mackinac Marine Rescue MEDIVAC’d four people from Mackinac Island after their boat collided with the harbor break wall. At approximately 11:30 p.m. EST, Sector Sault Sainte Marie Command Center received a call that a recreational vessel with […]
MACKINAC COUNTY, Mich — Mackinac County Sheriff’s Deputies are investigating a fatal motor vehicle accident that occurred on US-2 near River Road in Garfield Township. Deputies and Troopers from the Michigan State Police St. Ignace Post were called to the scene Saturday afternoon for a two vehicle accident involving a […]