ALPENA – Hot temperatures climbing into the 90s with heat index values reaching the near 100s will dominate the Alpena area through Thursday and although the weather is supposed to cool some, it is expected to be hot through the holiday weekend. A weather system could bring showers and ...

ALPENA — The Friends of Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and the Michigan Spearfishing Association are co-hosting an event on Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center featuring Kimi Werner. She is traveling the midwest to research a new cookbook that will feature ...

ALPENA — The Association of Lifelong Learners (ALL) has a full slate of programs next week. Below is more information about some of them. Michigan History Day Film Festival Tuesday, July 7, 2026 ACC Madeline Briggs Center 143 from noon until 1 p.m. Michigan students in 3-12th grades ...

ALPENA — Jim Johnson, retired fisheries biologist and Besser Museum curator, gave The News a one-on-one curator tour of the museum’s Great Lakes Fisheries Heritage exhibit, which features a Great Lakes gill net fishing tug, the Katherine V. The tug boat represents a bygone era of Great ...

By REAGAN VOETBERG News Staff Writer ALPENA — The period for recall petitions signing for Alpena Public Schools Board Members Eric Lawson, Sarah Costain, and Monica Dziesinski has come to a close, and the unofficial count by recall organizers shows enough signatures to put the three board ...