It was Media Day Thursday for the Symetra Tour, as some of the ladies who will take part in the Island Resort Championship at Sweetgrass next month came to town. Stephanie Kenoyer is from south Florida and she will compete here for the third straight year. She says that the....

---

As the debate continues over whether we should have a wolf hunt in the Upper Peninsula, the state DNR is reporting that another dog has been killed by a wolf in the Copper Country. This dog was found dead inside a fenced yard near the town of Atlantic Mine on Thursday. It's the third dog to be found...

---

Anyone who traveled to the eastern part of the Upper Peninsula in 2009 remembers the detour that was set up as the state replaced the decks on the US-2 bridge over the Cut River in Mackinac County. Well, get ready to go down that narrow detour route again this summer. The...

---

Six people have been arrested on drugs charges in Iron River. Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement Team detectives went to a home on Tenth Avenue in Iron River Tuesday night and found four grams of heroin, marijuana, illegal mushrooms, and illegal prescription drugs. The owner…

---

A Wisconsin man has been arrested and arraigned on charges that he broke into…and stole money from...two Subway restaurants in Escanaba. 51-year-old Brook Grzelak was arrested in Waupun, Wisconsin, and was brought back to Michigan under an extradition warrant on...

---

The State Board of Canvassers has approved the petition signatures that were collected by animal rights groups to have a referendum on wolf hunting on the November, 2014 ballot. The 255,000 signatures were certified by the board on Wednesday. That means that the wolf hunt that is scheduled...

---

An Upper Peninsula woman won $250,000 in last Friday's Mega Millions lottery. Paulette Lightfoot of Sault Ste. Marie says she was disappointed at first because she had asked her husband to buy a ticket for the huge Powerball jackpot that night…and he bought a ticket for the wrong...

---

Marquette County will be doing an inventory of all of the "brownfield" sites in the county, and will be using a federal grant to do the assessment. The EPA approved $400,000 for the project. Marquette County Treasurer Anne Giroux is a member of the Marquette County Brownfield Authority. She says the goal...

---

An inmate at the Schoolcraft County Jail walked away from his community service pass Monday night, but found a few hours later. Sheriff John Norrington says that he and the courts approved the pass for the 25-year-old man to attend a counseling session at a Manistique church. Deputies were notified...

---

A fire investigation turned into a drug bust for Hannahville Tribal Police and the Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement Team. The structure fire happened on tribal lands along Casino Lane Sunday night. The UPSET team found meth components near the fire, including four pop bottles....

---

Upper Peninsula Congressman Dan Benishek says it is still taking too long for the Veterans Administration to approve benefits for our nation's veterans. So Benishek is introducing legislation that would make it easier for supervisors within the V-A to fire employees when they don't...

---

Some anxious moments Monday night for Manistique firefighters. They were called out to 69-96-W Smith Lake Drive in Manistique Township just after ten o'clock. On arrival, they found a large fire burning next to a 500-pound propane tank. They managed to get the gas shut off and the fire...

---

A two-year old Kingsford boy is hospitalized after falling from a second story window. Kingsford Public Safety says the child was leaning against the screen of an open window when the screen gave way and the child fell to the lawn below. The incident happened Monday afternoon...

---

Charges have been filed against a Marquette woman who crashed into two parked cars last Friday in downtown Marquette. The accident happened at just before 5:00 Friday afternoon in the 2-hundred block of West Washington Street. Marquette Police say that Ariel Williamson was charged...

---

Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski is coming to the Upper Peninsula. Keselowski…and his Number Two Miller Lite Ford Fusion "Blue Deuce" car…will be in Saint Ignace next Wednesday, May 29th, and everyone is invited to attend a public event that night. It will be held at the...

---

A Michigan state trooper from the Gladstone post has become certified as a member of the State Police Underwater Recovery Unit. Trooper Shawn Reynolds graduated from the four-week, 160-hourlong training program on Friday…along with five other men from Lower Michigan....

---

Grant money has been approved for several Upper Peninsula projects designed to help deer find enough food to eat in the spring and fall months. The 50-thousand dollars comes from the state's Deer Habitat Improvement Initiative. The Alger and Schoolcraft chapters of U-P Whitetails, and the Alger...

---

Free hunting and fishing licenses are now available for all active-duty military members in Michigan. To qualify, a person has to have been a Michigan resident at the time of enlistment. They have to show proof of military status when applying for the free license…and any license that...

---

Michigan State Police are back with their "Click it or Ticket" seatbelt campaign, just in time for the upcoming Memorial Day travel period. News conferences are being held across Michigan Monday….including one at the state police post in Negaunee…to launch the advertising....

---

With the State of Michigan lifting the cap on the number of charter schools, Lake Superior State University has set one up that takes advantage of on-line learning. John Shibley in the LSSU Public Relations Department says it is called "I Cademy". He says teaching math, science....

---

Those two big lottery jackpots were claimed over the weekend, but not by anyone here in Michigan. The $600 million Powerball had one winning ticket that was sold in Florida. So the jackpot will be down to the minimum $40 million on Wednesday. The $190 million Mega Millions had two winning...

---

With the walleye and trout fishing seasons underway across the Upper Peninsula, the Michigan DNR has added a section on its web page to show you fishing areas that are "family-friendly". These are waters that have easy access, a high likelihood of actually catching a fish, and various...

---

Governor Rick Snyder signed legislation Thursday that gives school districts another option when dealing with too many snow days. Most districts have decided to "make up" those days by tacking on days at the end of the school calendar in June. But under legislation signed....

---

Massive budget cuts are on the way in the Escanaba Area Public Schools. The school board this week approved the cuts because the district expects to receive less money in state aid, and enrollment continues to decline. Escanaba Superintendent Michele LeMire says that 13.5 teaching positions....

---

Upper Peninsula Congressman Dan Benishek has introduced legislation aimed at dealing with the high level of sexual assaults that are happening within our military. Benishek says many sexual assaults go unreported, and many soldiers aren't comfortable talking to their commanders...

---

A man was attacked by a bear in the Town of Silver Creek Wednesday afternoon. That's located across the border in Marinette County. Sheriffs Deputies say that Gerre Ninnermann saw the bear go after his dog and tried to scare the bear away. But the bear turned on Ninnermann and...

---

Michigan State Police made a huge drug bust this in Dickinson County Wednesday afternoon. Troopers say that when they went to a home in Channing to talk with a parole violator, they smelled the marijuana odor. When they went inside, troopers found a growing operation that had about...

---

The Powerball Lottery jackpot went unclaimed Wednesday night, meaning that at least $475 million will be up for grabs in this Saturday night's drawing. Wednesday night's numbers were 2, 11, 26, 34 and 41. The Mega Ball number was 32. But nobody in the entire country...

---

A Rapid River woman was charged Wednesday with stealing money from an assisted living facility. Michigan State Police say that 39 year-old Jana Chaperon was the director of the Woodland Meadows Assisted Living Facility, which was owned by Manistique's Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital. Detectives....

---

A Curtis woman was arrested Tuesday when she allegedly broke into Chamberlin's Inn…but then locked herself inside of the get-away car. Michigan State Police say the 42-year-old went into the Inn early Tuessday and stole food, dishes, silverware, and other items. Then she couldn't find her car keys....

---

The Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning has kicked off a media campaign to get more of us to use our seat belts. The state's seatbelt usage rate hit 97.9 % in 2009, but has been dropping steadily ever since…and last year, it was at 93.6%. Next week, safety belt enforcement zones...

---

Upper Peninsula Congressman Dan Benishek says that 21 sportsmen groups from across the country have offered support for his legislation that would declare an "open unless posted closed" policy on federal lands. Benishek says his legislation is needed to prevent environmentalists...

---

State representative John Kivela is demanding a House hearing on the state correction department's decision to privatize prison food systems. Kivela says that having a Pennsylvania company providing those services won't save the state any money, and will mean the loss of work...

---

The Veterans Administration Hospital in Iron Mountain is planning a special ceremony on Memorial Day weekend. It's to honor James Priestap, a Dickinson County man who was killed by a sniper's bullet in Iraq back in 2006. The V-A is renaming the circle drive in front of the...

---

A downstate woman died in a traffic crash in the eastern U.P. on Sunday. Mackinac County Sheriffs Deputies say the accident happened on US-2 at the Scenic Overlook just outside of Saint Ignace at 9:30 Sunday morning. A car turned into the path of a pick-up truck that was....

---

The National Transportation Safety Board has come back with its final report about an Upper Peninsula plane crash that happened in December of 2011. The crash killed the pilot…29-year-old Manistique native Joseph Pann…and 52-year-old Detroit native Thomas Phillips, who was an...

---

The air traffic control tower at Sawyer International Airport is not closing after all. The federal Transportation Secretary says that they've found enough money within the FAA budget to keep the towers open at 149 small airports, including Sawyer. The towers had been scheduled to close in...

---

Flags are being lowered to half-staff across Michigan Monday to honor a downstate firefighter who died in the line of duty last week. Governor Rick Snyder has ordered all flags lowered to remember 29-year-old Brian Woehlke, who died while fighting a fore at a strip mall in the...

---

Work is scheduled to begin Monday on the M-28 bridge that goes over the Anna River in Alger County. The state transportation department will be resurfacing the bridge, and replacing the "bridge approaches" in this project. There will be one lane of traffic open, so there will be a...

---

The Michigan Natural Resources Commission Thursday approved holding a limited wolf hunt during its meeting in Roscommon. The hunt calls for the taking of 16 wolves in one unit in western Gogebic County, another 19 wolves in parts of Baraga, Ontonagon, eastern Gogebic and...

---

Governor Rick Snyder signed legislation Wednesday that gives the Natural Resources Commission the authority to designate an animal as a "game animal", which opens the animal up for a possible hunt. Senate Bill 288 was sponsored by Upper Peninsula State Senator Tom Casperson as a way to neutralize a potential...

---

An elderly man died inside a well at a camp in Dickinson County on Wednesday. Michigan State Police say the incident happened at just before 2:00 in the afternoon in Waucedah Township when the 77-year-old man from Orland Park Illinois was making repairs to a 12-foot deep...

---

A grass fire got out of control on Wednesday in Manistique Township, burning about five acres of forestland along North Kendall Road. Manistique Public Safety says the call came in at about 11:15 in the morning, and when crews got there, they saw that the fire was spreading quickly...

---

Five pop bottles containing components of methamphetamines were left in two Iron River parks on Wednesday. State police say they were called first to Bachman Park where a small kid found what's called a "burst vessel" with an unknown liquid inside. Luckily, the eight-year-old did not...

---

Michigan State Police are investigating a fatal traffic crash in the eastern U.P. Details are sketchy, but troopers say a 44-year-old woman lost control of her car on M-28 near Dick Road in Chippewa County. She was the only person in the car at the time of the accident, which happened sometime...

---

Governor Rick Snyder Tuesday declared state disaster areas in 19 Michigan counties, including six here in the Upper Peninsula. The declaration comes after rapidly-melting snow and ice caused massive flooding in those areas. Here in the U.P., the declaration covers Marquette, Baraga, Houghton...

---

Lake Superior State University is moving forward with is search for a new president. Current president Tony McLain is leaving in December, and the LSSU Board of Trustees is launching a nationwide search for a replacement. The university right now has put together a search...

---

A grass fire got out of hand Tuesday in Wells Township. Escanaba Public Safety firefighters were to the home at 57-50 John 17-Point-3 Avenue at about 4:30 in the afternoon and saw two sheds and several fences on fire. They were able to put out the flames rather quickly and were...

---

The late spring has made for a slow start to the tourism season, but with warmer and drier weather this week, M-DOT has re-opened many of the roadside parks that sit alongside Upper Peninsula highways. M-DOT Spokesman James Lake says that 23 of them re-opened on Monday...

---

Now that the snow has melted throughout much of the Hiawatha National Forest, officials are preparing for several prescribed burns to improve wildlife habitat…and to cut down on the possibility of wildfires. There will be two burns in Delta County, and another in Alger County. One is the "Dutch Mill"...

---

A statewide audience will learn a little more about Escanaba when the television program "Under the Radar Michigan" hits the airwaves on PBS. The show features small towns across Michigan, and the crew came to Escanaba last fall to record the program that you will see...

---

The surgeons at the OSF Medical Group in Illinois recently completed an operation where they created a brand new trachea for a 32-month-old toddler who was born without one. Saint Francis Hospital spokeswoman Lanna Scannel in Escanaba says the procedure was a complete success...

---

An emergency dredging project starts Monday in Marquette. Work is scheduled to begin on a half-million dollars worth of dredging in the Presque Isle Marina. Jon Swenson is with the Marquette City Parks and Recreation Department, and he says the marina will be closed to all traffic. Swenson...

---

There will be hundreds of parties thrown across the Upper Peninsula this month, celebrating high school graduation. And many of those parties will see alcohol being served. Prevention Specialist Karen Sargent at Public Health of Delta and Menominee Counties says they are sending letters....

---

A series of meetings will be held this month across Michigan to talk about the state's regional forest management plans. D-N-R staff will be on hand to share their plans for nearly four million acres of state forestland, and to get opinions from various stakeholders on the plan. The first meeting...

---

An Upper Peninsula lawmaker is outraged at the Snyder Administration decision to privatize food services within Michigan's prisons. Democratic state representative John Kivela of Marquette says that it is a shortsighted decision that won't really save the state any money. And Kivela is...

---

If you're planning on doing some bear or elk hunting this fall, now is the time to think about applying for a license. There will be 200 elk and 7,900 bear hunting licenses available this year. Only Michigan residents can apply for elk licenses while non-residents can apply...

---

Legislation that would pave the way for a wolf hunt in Michigan even if a referendum were passed to stop a hunt was approved Thursday in the Michigan House. The vote was 72-to-38. State representative Ed McBroom (R-Norway) says that the bill will go a long way toward preventing non-Michigan groups like...

---

Two cars collided in Iron Mountain Thursday, sending one of the drivers to the hospital. Iron Mountain Police say the accident happened at the US-2/East Fleshiem Street intersection at about 7:40 in the morning. A car driven by a 21-year-old Iron Mountain woman turned onto US-2 and...

---

A group of 76 World War Two veterans from the Upper Peninsula spent the day Wednesday in Washington, D.C., after taking part in the Honor Flight program. During their 13-hour-long trip, the veterans and their guardians visited the World War Two Memorial...

---

A Peshtigo man has been officially charged with the murder of the director of Marinette County's domestic violence shelter. And an Escanaba woman who new the victim is reacting with sadness. 48-year-old Brent Kaempf was charged with first degree intentional homicide in a criminal complaint...

---

The state transportation department has re-opened a portion of M-28 that had been closed since Monday because of floodwaters from the Ontonagon River. M-DOT spokesman James Lake in Escanaba says that while vehicles can now go on M-28 between Berglund and Bruce Crossing...

---

There's been a fatal traffic crash in Baraga County. It happened Wednesday morning on US-41 near Covington when a pick-up truck driven by 53-year-old Randy Garceau of Ishpeming collided with a logging truck driven by 47-year-old Anthony Beauchamp of Escanaba. Garceau was....

---

An elderly man fell into a well at his camp in Sands Township on Wednesday. Sheriffs Deputies say the 84-year-old fell through an open-floor well access door at about 2:00 in the afternoon, tumbling eight feet down…through a three foot-by-three foot opening. The man's son...

---

Michigan State Police accident reconstruction teams are continuing to investigate Monday's traffic crash that involved the Grayling High School Golf Team. Police on Tuesday released the names of the three people killed. 30-year-old Jason Potter…the Grayling Golf Coach…and 18-year-old Louis Menard...

---

The National Weather Service has posted a Flood Warning for the middle branch of the Escanaba River near the Marquette County town of Humboldt. The river is expected to go over the flood stage of 6-point-5 feet Wednesday, before receeding sometime Thursday morning. The Flood Warning for the Paint River...

---

Authorities in Marinette County released a few new details Tuesday about the death of a woman in Peshtigo. The Marinette County Coroner says that 45-year-old Trish Waschbrish was stabbed to death Sunday night, and her boyfriend, 48-year-old Brent Kaempf, is in custody in Milwaukee as a ...

---

One person died after a traffic crash in the eastern Upper Peninsula over the weekend. Michigan State Police say that 66-year-old JoAnn Fountain of DeTour crossed the centerline of M-134 and crashed into another car, driven by a 65-year-old man from Cedarville. He was taken to....

---

Two teenagers are in jail after they tried to rob a gas station in Alger County. Michigan State Police say the kids broke into the Oasis Gas Station in Shingleton at just after 4:00 Sunday morning. The would-be thieves didn't know that the owner was in the building, and didn't know that...

---

Two pick-up trucks collided Sunday night at an intersection in Gladstone. Gladstone Public Safety says the accident happened at just after 7:00 at the US 2/41 intersection with South Hill Road. Officers say that Grant Zimes of Gladstone tried to make a left turn onto the highway and...

---

Four people were taken to the hospital after a traffic crash in Marquette County Saturday night. Marquette County Sheriffs Deputies say the accident happened at about 10:15 p.m. at the intersection of M-553 and County Road 480. A 64-year-old Marquette woman went through...

---

The U.S. Coast Guard says that its ice-breaking operations have ended for the season. Operation Taconite began back on December 17th and ended this weekend. During the 129 days of icebreaking, nine U.S. Coast Guard and one Canadian ice cutter worked more than 3,900 hours chopping ice....

---

A Copper Country man was killed over the weekend when his car fell on him. Houghton County Sheriffs Deputies say they were called at 6:45 Saturday morning to a home on Boundry Street in Calumet Township and found 49-year-old Michael Lynch dead underneath it. It appears that....

---

The Upper Peninsula Power Company is moving into its second phase of repair work around its Boney Falls Hydroelectric Facility in Delta County. The company says that repairs and upgrades are needed to the facility this summer to deal with some of the seepage that has been occurring....

---

The battle over a potential Michigan wolf hunt heated up Thursday when the Michigan Senate passed a bill giving the Natural Resources Commission the authority to designate the animal as a "game animal" and make it eligible for a hunt. The fact that this bill would make a...

---

A downstate brewery is moving forward on its plan to build a new plant in Escanaba. Bell Brewery is buying a three-acre parcel of land inside the Whitetail Industrial Park. That was officially approved by the Escanaba City Council during a special meeting on Thursday. Vicky Schwab is the...

---

Marquette Police went to the Ramada Inn yesterday to investigate a suspicious package. Detective Gordy Warchock says it turned out to be a harmless canister. A group of contractors were staying at the hotel and one of the men left this package as a prank on another man...

---

We now know who will be playing at the Upper Peninsula State Fair this August. The grandstand entertainment line-up was announced Thursday at a media luncheon at the Island Resort and Casino. The country singer Craig Morgan will perform on the night of Wednesday, August 14th....

---

The YMCA of Marquette County has been approved for a $3 million federal loan to do a major expansion of the facility. Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow made the announcement on Wednesday. Marquette YMCA Director Lisa Coombs-Gerou says the expansion will double...

---

The Michigan House Education Committee took more testimony Wednesday on a proposal to allow more flexibility in the Michigan Merit Curriculum. State representative Ed McBroom of Norway is pushing the legislation as a way for students pursuing career paths and educational...

---

The insurance company Blue Cross Blue Shield has put together a kids video contest, and two Upper Peninsula youngsters are amongst the five statewide finalists. The contest began in January, aimed at middle school kids and promoting the message of healthy eating and...

---

Escanaba may soon be home to a new brewery. The Escanaba City Council will hold a special meeting Thursday morning to consider an offer from Bell Brewery to buy two parcels of land for $35,000 in the Whitetail Industrial Park. The company from downstate Galesburg would...

---

The Michigan DNR is keeping an eye out for Oak Wilt Disease in more than two dozen counties across the state, including Dickinson, Iron and Menominee Counties here in the Upper Peninsula. The Forest Pest Management Program Manager says that many oak trees die...

---

Two people have been arrested in Delta County's Wells Township on assault charges. Michigan State Police say a 31-year-old Escanaba man and a 23-year-old Escanaba man beat up a 41-year-old Bark River man at about 1:00 Monday afternoon. The victim was treated for head injuries at Saint Francis Hospital and....

---