PAINESDALE – A woman and her nine-year-old son along with the woman’s boyfriend, escaped unharmed from their burning duplex on the corner of M-26 and Baltic Street Thursday morning, but they lost everything in the fire. Jordis Numinen and her son, Marshall, are starting over with nothing, ...

PAINESDALE – No injuries were reported as the result of an early Thursday morning structure fire in Painesdale. The structure, a duplex, is located on the corner of M-26 and Baltic Street in Painesdale. At approximately 3:14 a.m. Thursday morning, firefighters with South Range and Adams ...

LANSING – On Thursday, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) announced the six communities receiving more than $23.9 million in total grant funding through the Michigan Talent Partnership (MTP) Program. The City of Houghton. the only UP community on the list, joins Ann Arbor, ...

HANCOCK — Copper Shores Community Health Foundation announced that Jessica Mills is the new Meals on Wheels program director. According to a Copper Shores press release, Mills has the unique distinction of being the only person to have met every current Meals on Wheels participant, and will ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Michigan US Sen. Elissa Slotkin has been notified that the Trump administration is investigating her after she organized and appeared in a video with other Democrats urging military service members to resist “illegal orders.” Slotkin, a former CIA analyst, first ...

HOUGHTON — Houghton County has been named a defendant in a civil rights law suit filed by Dean Goding, a former Houghton County Jail inmate. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court, in Marquette on Dec. 19, 2025. According to court documents, Goding alleges that on Jan. 5, 2021, while ...