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The great migration

DELTA COUNTY — It's that time of year again. Hundreds to thousands of monarch butterflies from the Upper Peninsula and Canada annually migrate to roost in the cedars on Delta County's Stonington Peninsula, which serves as a gathering place before they continue their journey south. From ...

Assault at Warming Center

MARQUETTE — An official at A Room at the Inn, the downtown Marquette warming center, has responded to a Wednesday arrest by the Marquette Police Department which occurred in response to an assault on one of its guests. "We are grateful to the Marquette Police Department, Marquette City Fire ...

Developing a workforce

HOUGHTON — Following last week’s decision by the Michigan Strategic Fund to approve a $50 million infrastructure grant at the Copperwood Mine project, attention in the western Upper Peninsula is shifting from site preparation to a lack of a trained workforce. State funding secured $45 ...

Dear Annie

Dear Annie: I feel a little silly even writing this because my mother is a wonderful grandmother. She absolutely adores my children, and they adore her. But lately, I've started to feel like she is much more interested in being their grandmother than in being my mother. A few weeks ago, I ...

STEM is growing

LANSING — Afterschool programs are giving more Michigan young people opportunities to explore science, technology, engineering and math, but hundreds of thousands of families remain unable to access those experiences, according to new America After 3PM data released by the Afterschool ...

Back to school safety

HOUGHTON — As summer winds down and local schools start up Sept. 8, roads and neighborhoods take on a different rhythm. School buses return to their routes, children walk and bike to school, parents navigate busy drop-off lines, and teenage drivers begin making the trip to school on their ...