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Traffic death in Eastern UP

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 ...

Calling all artists!

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 ...

Deadly dispute

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 ...

Going deep

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 ...

Working on details

LUCERNE, SWITZERLAND — U.S. and Iranian negotiators were in Switzerland Sunday for talks on their interim agreement to end the Iran war. Pakistani and Qatari mediators were also at the scene for the technical-level discussions on resolving the conflict that began in late February. The U.S. ...

Now open

HOUGHTON — Rhythm Bike Shop opened its upstairs showroom last week to the public. After a few months of renovation, a new window installation and lettering on the front of the building, customers can now access the shop through the Shelden Avenue entrance — in the same building as the The ...