HOUGHTON – The recent snowy weather is shaping up to be good for local business. With more than 700 miles of snowmobile trails across Houghton, Keweenaw, Baraga and Ontonagon counties, and hundreds of miles of cross-country ski trails, along with downhill skiing at Mt. Ripley, Mt. Bohemia and ...

NEGAUNEE — A lower Michigan man died early Saturday afternoon in a snowmobile accident in the eastern Upper Peninsula. State Police at the St. Ignace post were called out just before 1 p.m. Saturday regarding a snowmobile crash on Bay City Lake Road near Trail 47 in Mackinac County's Clark ...

ESCANABA — After months of bed bug complaints, management at the Harbor Tower Apartments has secured a new pest control company to try to get rid of the problem at the subsidized 18-story housing complex in Escanaba. An Orkin affiliate in Green Bay has been hired to do the job, particularly ...

LANSING — This Christmas, thousands of Michiganders may have left some presents unopened. They were not under any tree, but in Michigan’s treasury: Cold hard cash that was theirs all along, waiting to be reunited. The Michigan Department of Treasury is holding onto about $2 billion in ...

MARQUETTE — Gavin Leach stepped down as interim president of Northern Michigan University Thursday, as Chris Olsen readied to take the position. Leach has spent the last 36 years working at NMU and a student obtaining a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a Masters of Public Administration ...