ESCANABA — The Delta County Board agreed Tuesday to have new playground equipment installed at OB Fuller Park in Bark River. With 100% of the funds matched as well as reimbursement from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, no county funding will be needed for ...

A federal judge in Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration Thursday to find the money to fully fund SNAP benefits for November, a decision that the administration promptly appealed. The ruling by U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell Jr. gave President Donald Trump's administration until ...

ESCANABA — The three incumbents reelected to the Escanaba City Council will officially be sworn in at the council's re-organizational meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday. The council members’ term lengths are all four years. Mark Ammel received 1,230 votes, which was 36.73% of the total turnout ...

MANISTIQUE — Two incumbents will return to the Manistique City Council after running unopposed in Tuesday's election. Cathy Rohde, the city's currently mayor pro-tem, and Mike Perilloux, who was mayor from 2018 to 2020, were both first appointed in 2018. Rohde drew 152 votes on Tuesday, ...

WASHINGTON — All 50 states have applied for the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program in Republicans’ “big, beautiful” law, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said Thursday. States had from Sept. 15 through Wednesday to apply for the program, which was authorized ...

NIAGARA, Wis. — A man died Wednesday afternoon after crashing his truck into a garbage truck on Main Street while fleeing from a Niagara Police officer. The officer had attempted to do a traffic stop about 1:11 p.m. Central time Wednesday when the other driver took off at high speed and ...