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Help for UP

IRON MOUNTAIN — Upper Peninsula residents struggling to pay heat and electric bills may be able to get assistance through a Superior Watershed Partnership program. In a news release, SWP pointed out that reforms in the Michigan Energy Assistance Program have increased available funding and ...

Attack threat thwarted

DEARBORN (AP) — Multiple people who had been allegedly plotting a violent attack over the Halloween weekend were arrested Friday in the Detroit area according to FBI Director Kash Patel in a social media post. The law enforcement effort was focused on suburban Detroit. Patel said more ...

Lake Linden School Board contracts with CCISD

LAKE LINDEN — Jim Rautiola, superintendent of the Copper Country Intermediate School District, has been named interim superintendent of Lake Linden-Hubbell Schools. A special meeting of the school board was held at 7:30 a.m. Friday morning to discuss and contract with the CCISD to provide ...

Losing SNAP could mean more pregnancy complications as food insecurity grows

Millions nationwide could be cut off from access to government food assistance Saturday due to the shutdown, including those who are pregnant or have babies and young children. That possibility brings back a lot of difficult memories for Lynlee Lord, a mom of three in rural Idaho. In 2014, ...

Friday fatality

IRON RIVER — A 60-year-old Iron River woman was killed Friday morning when she was hit by a vehicle on U.S. 2 near Idlewild Road in Crystal Falls Township The driver of the vehicle, a 43-year-old Crystal Falls woman, was not injured, Iron County Sheriff Ryan Boehmke said in a news ...