6+ hour, 21+ min ago   (323+ words) State regulators Thursday approved a $74.52 million gas rate hike for DTE Energy customers, which was less than half the total requested. A residential customer with typical usage of 75 hundred cubic feet of gas per month will see a 3.34% bill increase,…...

6+ hour, 20+ min ago   (257+ words) ESCANABA & IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich. - Bay College congratulates Matt Stewart, Bay College's Torch Award recipient for the September 2026-November 2026 quarter. Stewart was hired in 2021 as the TRIO SSS (Student Support Services) STEM Academic Advisor. He moved into his role as Director…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (391+ words) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- While a veteran who was set to travel on the Upper Peninsula Honor Flight Mission XXIX didn't get the chance, one guardian made sure his story was told. Michelle Labadie joined this year's UP Honor Flight as a guardian,…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (280+ words) Twenty-five years ago, on September 11, 2001, the ground rocked, sounds of tremendous explosions reverberated down the endless city streets, and cries from the wounded and dying echoed down the dark alleys and byways. These are just minuscule descriptions of what occurred…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (243+ words) DAGGETT -- A Daggett woman has been sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison after pleading guilty in July to first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a person under the age of 13. Rocquel Anne Irving, 39, was sentenced in the Menominee County…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (461+ words) ESCANABA -- Veterans from throughout the Upper Peninsula are preparing to depart from Escanaba for Washington, D.C., Wednesday on the 29th Upper Peninsula Honor Flight mission. 73 veterans -- including one woman -- who served during the Korean and Vietnam wars are set to board Mission…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (652+ words) Map of hunting ground units open to bear hunting this season (Image from the Michigan DNR) The first bear hunting period of 2026 kicks off Sept. 9 in the Upper Peninsula as thousands of bear hunters prepare to take to the field…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (235+ words) Gene's Towing retrieves the vehicle that rolled over near the paper mill on Saturday. (R. R. Branstrom | Daily Press) Traffic on County Road 426 was temporarily at a standstill on Saturday afternoon after a vehicle had gone off the road. (R. R. Branstrom | Daily Press)…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1712+ words) Several attorneys attended a hearing in the Delta County 47th Circuit Court on Friday, Aug. 28 for litigation between the Bishop Noa Home for Senior Citizens versus the City of Escanaba and Old State Development LLC. (Sophie Vogelmann | Daily Press) Rendering of Stonebrook…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (316+ words) Specialist David Anthony Wilkey Jr. POWERS — At 2 p.m. Saturday, a portion of U.S. 41 just south of Powers in Spalding Township will be named the Specialist David Anthony Wilkey Jr. Memorial Highway. The 22-year-old was killed June 18, 2007, during Operation Iraqi Freedom....