In addition to a massive boost in road funding, the Michigan budget finalized early Friday includes a continuation of school breakfast and lunch programs and dedicated transportation funding for rural districts, Upper Peninsula lawmakers said. The final framework reduces the state budget ...

MARQUETTE — Two people had to be rescued Thursday evening after their sailboat capsized on Lake Superior. The two brothers were sailing from Shot Point to Marquette’s Lower Harbor and back when on the return trip a gust of wind capsized the boat and damaged the hull about 6:30 p.m. ...

ESCANABA — Long-haul canoeist Peter Frank of Escanaba is on the final stretch of his journey to circumnavigate the Great Loop, a roughly 6,000-mile nautical journey through waterways in the eastern United States and Canada. Peter’s is a journey undertaken for personal accomplishment and ...

NEGAUNEE – A contractor died Friday morning while working at the Upper Peninsula Power Company's Hoist Dam in Negaunee Township, authorities said. The Marquette County Sheriff’s Office Technical Rescue Unit 131 was dispatched about 11 a.m. for a confined rescue inside a penstock of UPPCO's ...

After much hand wringing and consternation from lawmakers who feared detrimental effects to Michigan’s cannabis industry, the Michigan Senate voted early Friday by a thin margin to pass a 24% wholesale tax on marijuana products sold in the state. The measure will raise an estimated $420 ...

(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online at bridgemi.com.) Known to some as the “Freshwater Everest,” if you want to explore this mountain, you don’t go up, you go down. In the middle of Lake ...