OUTAGE ALERT (Friday, March 13, 12:54 p.m.): We currently have about 500 services affected by outages due to high winds and trees on the line. Crews are on site on Sugar Island and Whitefish township. Thank you for your patience as our crews work to restore power safely.  *** Outage […]

SAULT STE. MARIE , Mich. — The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians has prevailed in its suit challenging the Department of the Interior’s decision to deny the tribe’s trust land application for land it purchased in Michigan’s lower peninsula. In a March 5 decision, District Judge Trevor N. […]

Traffic for the calendar year-to-date at Feb. 29, 2020, is 182,121. This represents a year-to-date increase of 8.4 per cent. The bridge has processed 102.9 million bridge crossings since 1962. The International Bridge Administration today announced that one-way traffic crossings of the International Bridge at Sault Ste. Marie totaled 89,312 […]

BAY MILLS — Early today, Bay Mills Indian Community became aware that two of our employees might have been exposed to novel coronavirus (COVID-19) while on out-of-state travel to the Washington, D.C. area. Those employees reported the exposure immediately and are taking steps to distance themselves from others until they […]

Michigan State Police troopers from the St. Ignace Post responded to a two-vehicle personal injury crash. The crash occurred at approximately 07:30 A.M. at the intersections of M129 and E. Nordquist Rd. in Clark Township. A twenty-year old Cedarville man and sixty-five-year-old women from Goetzville were involved in the crash. […]

“Honeybees are in the news a lot these days, for good reasons and bad”, says McBean, a U.P. beekeeper for 34 years. One third of the food we eat is pollenated by a honeybee. Did you know that 92% of beekeepers in the U.S. are hobbyist? The role of the […]

The melting snow reveals many things that have been buried since the fall. You may find that leaf rake that you’ve been looking for. The kids will realize that they have more toys than they thought. And, the dog will be happy thinking she has new toys to play with. […]

SAULT STE. MARIE, MICH. – Coast Guard Cutter Katmai Bay starts breaking ice Monday, March 9, 2020 in the lower St. Marys River in preparation for the 2020 shipping season. Later in the week, Coast Guard Cutters Mackinaw, Neah Bay, Morro Bay, and Bristol Bay will augment the icebreaking fleet […]

SAULT STE. MARIE – The fifth annual Hockey for Heroes Tournament runs March 13-14 at Pullar Stadium and benefits Veterans at Hospice of the EUP, including a Special Veteran Fund. The Corps of Engineers, M&C Water, U.S. Coast Guard, National Guard, Sault Printing and Michigan Department of Corrections are among […]

ST. IGNACE TOWNSHIP, MI – Police have arrested a 54-year-old St. Ignace man accused of breaking into a Loyal Order of Moose lodge in the Upper Peninsula. Troopers from the Michigan State Police St. Ignace Post responded to a breaking and entering complaint at a lodge in St. Ignace Township […]