Sixty-three percent of Michigan’s high school students have experienced one or more adverse childhood experiences. Adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, are potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood. Those events could refer to things like physical or emotional abuse and ...

We applaud lawmakers in Lansing for passing a state budget before schools’ budget years begin on July 1. Schools will know how much money the state will give them per student — $458 more per student than they got last year — before the 2023-24 school year begins, giving school ...

Last week, the story of the Titan submersible gripped the headlines as one of those chilling stories that tends to captivate the world from time to time. The submersible was built, hastily, to continue to push the boundaries of human movement through exploring two miles toward the Atlantic ...

“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.” — James Bovard, “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty” “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.” — Martin ...

It’s back! Every year on July 4, The News takes over Starlite Beach to host a competition that asks participants to put their artistic and engineering skills to the test. The Alpena News Sandcastle Contest will return Tuesday. Competitors in three divisions — a kids division, a ...

I could rattle off a hundred reasons why Alpena is particularly special this time of year, but, instead, I’ll name just one: The way residents celebrate the Fourth of July. Without a doubt, the Fourth of July was our family’s favorite holiday during our years in Alpena, because of the way ...