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Saturday, March 15, 2025
ESCANABA — Governor Gretchen Whitmer was at the Upper Peninsula State Fair on Thursday to talk about her administration’s accomplishments and goals during the annual Lunch With the Governor event, hosted by the Delta County Chamber of Commerce. Whitmer discussed a number of items in the education, housing, and economic […]
MACKINAC COUNTY, MI — Two people were killed in a head-on crash Tuesday morning and a third person was injured The crash took place around 1:15 a.m. in the area of U.S.-2 near H-33 in Newton Township. While an investigation is underway, police believe speed was a factor in the […]
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UPDATE: CHIPPEWA COUNTY, MI — The U.S. Marshals have confirmed a shooting took place Wednesday that left one person hospitalized and that a suspect wanted by police for child abduction is dead. US Marshalls identified the suspect as Giovanni McNab, who was wanted in Missouri for abduction and parental kidnapping. U.S. Marshals […]
WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — Thousands of Hawaii residents raced to escape homes on Maui as blazes swept across the island, destroying parts of a centuries-old town and killing at least 36 people in one of the deadliest U.S. wildfires in recent years. The fire took the island by surprise, leaving […]
CC SORVA is a local non-profit group dedicated to improve riding of Off Road Vehicles (ORV’s) in theEastern UP. The club recently obtained approval and funding to open up 38 miles of connector trailsbetween Strongs and Brimley, Strongs and Hulbert, and Strongs and Trout Lake. These trails are inaddition to […]
This summer, U.P. public health departments teamed up to promote the importance of local public health, to raise awareness of the public health services provided in local communities, and to build stronger community relationships. To bring these goals to life, the six U.P. health departments formed the U.P. Local Public […]
The Mackinac Bridge is auctioning off bridge tokens that stopped being accepted at the end of 2022. According to the bridge, there are 96 used circulated tokens being auctioned off in various conditions and random tokens. The Mackinac Bridge Authority stopped accepting tokens as of Sept. 10, 2019, but still […]
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) — The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians is taking a major step in addressing homelessness in the community. The Tribe has converted a former motel into transitional housing to create what is only the second homeless shelter in the Upper Peninsula. What used […]
The Chippewa County Health Department has issued an advisory to recreational swimmersto be aware of possible infections with SWIMMER’S ITCH, which has been detected inpeople swimming in the surface waters of Lake Superior in areas of Whitefish Bay off WestLakeshore Drive/Curley Lewis Highway, and Waishkey Bay, in Bay Mills Township,Michigan. […]