ESCANABA — Shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday, the jury weighing the case of Jacob Cronick, of Bark River, who allegedly shot his ex-father-in-law, Eric Parrotta, in the stomach during an altercation in Escanaba Township in 2024, told the court it was deadlocked. The trial has been declared a ...

CHATHAM — The Upper Peninsula was clobbered with snow this week, so the thought of planting a garden may be the furthest thing from many people’s minds. Still, despite the snow banks and icicles that peer back when looking out the window, spring is in fact less than two weeks ...

Last month the Interior Department announced the firing of 2,300 federal employees following, it says, a directive from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The OPM is an independent agency in the executive branch of the US government. It manages the federal civil service, including human ...

ESCANABA — Escanaba may soon be home to an Amazon shipping facility. Multiple individuals with ties to the large-scale construction project on North 30th Street who spoke to the Escanaba Daily Press on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the ...

ISHPEMING — Lenny Pizziola never thought a guy like him from Ishpeming would compete on the world stage for sledding, and he never would have pictured that it came about from free luging at the annual Heikki Lunta festival in Negaunee. “I only slid for a month before I made the team the ...

LANSING — The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) has approved Highland Copper Company’s updated air permit, according to a Thursday release from InvestUP. A statement Tuesday from Highland Copper Company, owner of Copperwood, said the revised permit allows ...