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Tuesday, November 26, 2024
ISLE ROYAL, Mich. (AP) — A wildfire that’s burned about 200 acres on Michigan’s remote Isle Royale has prompted the National Park Service to close some trails and campground areas on the wilderness island. The park service said Sunday on the Isle Royale National Park’s Facebook page that the closures […]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Kathy Hochul became the first female governor of New York on Tuesday, inheriting immense challenges as she takes over an administration facing criticism for inaction during Andrew Cuomo’s distracted final months in office. Hochul, a Democrat and former member of Congress from Western New York, took the oath […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two months ago, the leaders of the world’s seven major industrialized democracies met at the height of summer on England’s southwest coast. It was a happy occasion: the first in-person summit of the Group of Seven nations in two years due to the coronavirus pandemic and the […]
MACKINAW CITY, MI – A high-speed police chase that started in Mackinaw City ended more than 40 miles away and on the other side of the Mackinac Bridge early Sunday, Aug. 22, police said. The suspect in the chase, a 27-year-old male from Sacramento, Calif., was allegedly driving a stolen […]
The best man chair at a Michigan wedding will be empty next weekend in a stark sign of how the hasty U.S. military deployment to Afghanistan is having real-life impacts on families across the nation. Instead of the planned best man speech on Aug. 28, groom Robert Perry will use that time to offer a nontraditional […]
A Michigan product with Canadian Indigenous bloodlines, Abby Roque “has turned a lot of heads pretty quickly.” She’ll probably turn more at the Women’s Worlds It’s not as though Abby Roque has come out of nowhere. In fact, the good people of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., might take offense to […]
I am contacting you with the hope you may be able to help get the word out about my mom losing her home to a house fire in Paradise, MI on August 9th. At 64 years old, she has lost everything she has worked so hard for, and the home […]
CHIPPEWA COUNTY, Mich. – Chippewa County Health Department (CCHD) received a report from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services that the Delta (B.1.617.2) variant has been identified in ChippewaCounty. Delta is more than twice as contagious as previous variants, is driving the increase in cases in Michigan and […]
At approximately 12:15 p.m. on Monday, August 16, 2021, troopers from the Michigan State Police Calumet Post were dispatched to a hiker who had fallen off a cliff at the Sturgeon River Gorge in Houghton County, Laird Township. Investigation indicated that while hiking near the water fall a 75-year-old male, […]
UPDATE – The Mackinac County Sheriff is reporting that little Madison Yale has been found alive and safe and is eating cookies with the rescuers. Thank you to all the volunteers that assisted with the search for Madison and all the readers who offered up prayers for her safe return! […]
