HILLMAN — An abandoned and contaminated gas station in Hillman has been given a new life through sourdough and croissants. After two years of working to revitalize the plot of land near the downtown area, business owner Jamie MacArthur opened the doors to her new business, Black Squirrel ...

Northeast Lower Peninsula Alpena/Rockport: Rockport fishing was slow, but some lake trout were caught while trolling. Anglers reported many lake trout and walleye coming out of the lake in Alpena. Anglers caught walleye both casting and trolling. A couple steelhead and freshwater drum were ...

Earlier this year, Will Paul, an avid bowhunter, wrote a successful grant proposal to improve deer habitat in the eastern Upper Peninsula. Once the $10,673 in state funding was secured, Paul led a volunteer effort to plant hundreds of trees in the fields around the K-12 school in Alger ...

ALPENA — The Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center featured the SCUBAnauts, five teenage scuba divers, as part of their monthly lecture series on Wednesday evening. The lecture was titled “Teenagers Scientific Diving from Reefs to Shipwrecks.” According to a press release from the ...

ALPENA — On Tuesday, Senate Republicans narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, with a tiebreaker from Vice President JD Vance. Part of the bill aims at cutting $1 trillion from Medicaid, which might have ugly impacts on rural health services. Thunder Bay Community ...

ALPENA — A team of district staff has been working to set the guardrails on how Artificial Intelligence can be used appropriately in the classroom. At the Alpena Public Schools regular board meeting Monday, APS Director of Curriculum for grades six to 12 Matt Poli spoke to the board about ...