ALPENA -- The Michigan Brown Trout Festival in Alpena is a go this summer, and the big tent will return after a brief hiatus last year. The festival board voted Monday to include the tent this year, but a more limited event schedule is planned. The small tent, which was set up last year, but ...

ONAWAY — A year has come and gone for Glenda Bowman since she tested positive for COVID-19 and became Northeast Michigan’s first resident confirmed infected with the disease. Today, Glenda, and her husband, Bill, who ended up in the hospital from the coronavirus, say they still live with ...

ALPENA — One year after public health officials reported the first Northeast Michigander infected with the coronavirus, the region leads the state’s climb out of the pandemic. Presque Isle County has fully vaccinated a larger share of its residents than any other Michigan county, ...

ALPENA — Thunder Bay Junior High School and Alpena High School students had mixed feelings about heading back to the classroom four days a week. Monday marked the first time all middle and high school students were allowed in their respective schools at the same time this year. Until ...

ALPENA — Local public health officials on Monday announced a Northeast Michigan resident completed isolation after becoming infected with a variant of the COVID-19 virus. The Presque Isle County resident infected with the B.1.1.7. virus was identified through routine active surveillance by ...

ALPENA — Public health officials on Friday reported 40 newly infected or probably infected Northeast Michiganders, including 18 Alpena County residents, 11 Presque Isle County residents, five Montmorency County residents, and six Alcona County residents. District Health Departments Nos. 2 ...