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Monday, April 21, 2025
Today Governor Gretchen took action to elevate Black voices in state government, signing Executive Order 2020-163, which creates the Black Leadership Advisory Council. The governor also signed Executive Directive 2020-9, recognizing racism as a public health crisis and taking initial steps to address it within state government. Under the Executive […]
LANSING — Three prisoners, assisted by two others, ran for the fence at an Upper Peninsula prison Monday night, but were captured, officials confirmed. The incident happened about 10:30 p.m. at Chippewa Correctional Facility near Kincheloe and was over quickly, said Chris Gautz, a spokesman for the Michigan Department of […]
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 […]
Gone are the days when Canadians and Americans could freely drive across their shared border for a quick shopping trip or to visit family and friends. Now, the Canada-U.S. land border that was once wide open is closed to non-essential travel, affecting the lives of many people on both sides. Here’s […]
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 […]
The death penalty sentence for the convicted Boston Marathon bomber has been overturned by a federal appeals court. On Thursday, a Boston appeals court handed the case down to a lower court, which will decide the fate of 27-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The judges claimed the jurors were not properly screened […]
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 […]
Enbridge Energy won a major victory Wednesday when Attorney General Dana Nessel unexpectedly reversed course and declined to appeal a Court of Appeals ruling holding that a 2018 law setting up an authority to oversee the construction, maintenance and operation of a tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac to house […]