ESCANABA — Homelessness isn't a distant issue. “I get the phone calls constantly, all the time, from ‘I don’t know where to go’ to ‘Me and my children are sleeping in our car,’” said Teresa Boscarino, executive director of the Abundant Life Mission shelter in Menominee. ...

ESCANABA — Several Upper Peninsula lawmakers are seeking to rename a stretch of U.S. 41 in Menominee County to honor a soldier killed in Iraq in 2007: Spc. David Anthony Wilkey Jr., who was raised in Wilson and still has family in the area. Michigan House Bill No. 4351, introduced in April ...

ESCANABA — Peter Frank of Escanaba recently received his "BaccaLOOPerate" degree from America’s Great Loop Cruisers’ Association. The AGLCA bestowed Frank with the honor to recognize his completion of one of the world’s most unique adventures, America’s Great Loop. Boaters doing ...

A large retailer has signed a lease for a space in the front of the Delta Plaza Mall between Five Below and Shoe Sensation, DP Management confirmed. “There is a lot of demo to be done. Most of the exterior demo is complete, but the interior demo has just begun,” wrote Katherine Hedges, ...

HOUGHTON COUNTY — What began as a medical emergency in August turned into a heartwarming reunion yesterday when Trooper Lucas Lahnala of the Michigan State Police Calumet Post met with Rosie Danley, the woman whose life he helped save. While camping in a Hancock area campground this past ...

Despite opposition from some parents and pastors, the Michigan State Board of Education approved revised state health education standards Thursday that include recommendations that students be taught about gender identity and sexual orientation. Proponents of the standards say they are ...