KEWEENAW COUNTY – The Keweenaw Community Foundation has started the Keweenaw Heartlands Forest Fund, to raise $600,000 to support local governance and management of approximately 22,000 acres of newly established community forest in Keweenaw County. In transitioning the Heartlands property ...

ALLOUEZ TOWNSHIP – The most recent Keweenaw Heartlands Project Public Update meeting on Thursday, provided an overview of the history of the project since 2022 and its evolution from the initial land purchases in 2026. The update was led by Robin Meneguzzo, CEO of the Keweenaw Community ...

ISHPEMING – In a major project set to start at the end of the month, the Michigan Department of Transportation is investing about $6.2 million to rebuild more than three miles of M-35 in Marquette County between Marquette County Road 480 and US 41, including converting the M-35/County Road ...

HANCOCK — In a joint meeting of Hancock City Council, the City of Hancock Planning Commission and the Downtown Development Authority on April 1, many residents of Portage Lake Condos brought forth concerns during the public comment period about the prospective Navy Street development. The ...

LANSING — Michigan has cleared nearly 1.6 million criminal convictions under an automatic expungement process that began three years ago, according to new state data. It’s not known exactly how many Michiganders have benefited from the “clean slate” initiative — some people had ...

HOUGHTON — A man who pleaded guilty in connection with a January 2025 drunk driving accident that seriously injured two people was sentenced Thursday in Houghton County Circuit Court. According to a press release from Houghton County Prosecutor Dan Helmer, John Matthew Cook was sentenced to ...