LONDON (AP) — Dutiful rather than dynamic, Keir Starmer was elected Britain’s prime minister to be a safe pair of hands who would end years of political chaos under the Conservatives. Less than two years later, his term is ending after missteps, party infighting and one colossal error of ...
ESCANABA — The Michigan Court of Appeals has denied an appeal from a Gladstone man who was arrested and convicted after approaching a traffic stop in 2022 while recording police officers and refusing repeated commands to keep his distance. Garrett Jennings Van Net was found guilty by a ...
GERMFASK — A crash involving a dirt bike and a parked pickup truck on M-77 Sunday night resulted in the death of a Germfask man. On June 21, 2026, at approximately 10:50 p.m., troopers from the Michigan State Police Manistique Outpost responded to a reported traffic crash on M-77 near Grant Road in Germfask Township. According to a press release from the Michigan State Police, the preliminary investigation indicates that a 33-year-old Germfask man was operating a dirt bike on M-77 when he struck a legally parked pickup truck located on the shoulder of the roadway. Despite life-saving ...
HOUGHTON — The City of Houghton will host a new event aimed at inspiring creative art and community called Digital Bloom. The event takes place Aug. 1 along Houghton's waterfront trail. Digital Bloom is calling on creatives in the Keweenaw to participate and is actively recruiting artists to ...
SAULT STE. MARIE — An apparent domestic dispute in Sault Ste. Marie Thursday turned deadly with one person dead and a second injured from flying glass debris, police said. According to the Sault Ste. Marie Police Department, officers were dispatched to a residence on Young Street at 1:40 p.m. Thursday after receiving report of multiple gun shots fired. Additionally, when officers were enroute to the scene, they were advised that a man had shot himself. Upon arriving, police determined that a domeastic dispute had precipitated the shots and that a nearby residence had been shot at ...
For 20 years, Shawn Sitar has studied a part of Lake Superior he has never seen. Sitar, a fisheries research biologist with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, studies fish at the deepest spot on the largest freshwater lake on earth. It’s an area known as Superior Maximus, with ...
