SUDBURY, Ont. – The Greater Sudbury Cubs saw Nolan Newton score twice Thursday, including collecting the eventual game-winner, as part of a 5-3 triumph versus the Soo Eagles in a Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League contest at Gerry McCrory Countryside Sports Complex. Picking up the night’s opening tally, Greater Sudbury’s […]
Other News
Laker Women’s Basketball Fall to Wildcats on Thursday
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – The Lake Superior State University women’s basketball program (5-13, 2-8 GLIAC) fell to the Northern Michigan Wildcats (12-7, 7-3 GLIAC) by a final score of 50-34 on Thursday. Mattison Rayman (Otsego, Mich.) would get the Lakers on the board first, but the Wildcats would push […]
Laker Men’s Basketball Take Down Wildcats to Claim Spot Atop League Standings
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – The Lake Superior State University men’s basketball team (8-10, 7-3 GLIAC) came away with a thrilling victory over the top team in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) standings, the Northern Michigan Wildcats (15-5, 7-3 GLIAC), by a final score of 65-61 to force […]
Woman dies in Schoolcraft Co snowmobile accident
On 01/26/2023 at approximately 2:45pm, troopers from the Manistique Outpost and Gladstone Post received a call for a snowmobile crash where a female struck a tree on Trail 413 near Camp 7 Rd. in Schoolcraft County. Michigan State Police troopers, Commercial Motor Vehicle officers, Manistique Public Safety officers, Inwood Fire […]
Brimley Man Arrested for Child Sexually Abusive Activity
BRIMLEY, MICH. The Michigan State Police (MSP) Computer Crimes Unit, Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force is announcing the arrest of Kevin Michael Perron, 53, of Brimley, for child sexually abusive activity-aggravated and using a computer to commit a crime. Perron was arrested following an investigation in which digital evidence […]
Minimum wage increase set for February blocked by Michigan court
A panel of Michigan judges on Thursday overturned a lower court’s ruling that would have raised Michigan’s minimum wage rise to $13.03 an hour and increased the tipped minimum wage to $11.73 an hour next month. The Michigan Court of Appeals decision, which took effect immediately, determined a controversial legislative […]
United Way of the EUP’s Retired and Senior Volunteer Program Unites Local Agencies, Youth in Service on MLK Day 2023
EASTERN UPPER PENINSULA — Hundreds of local volunteers honored the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by assembling and distributing over 400 winter emergency preparedness kits, joining hundreds of thousands of Americans across the country in volunteer services in honor of MLK Day this month. The Martin Luther King, Jr., […]
Retirement Tax Bill Passes Senate With 2023 Tax Year Effective Date
The Democratic-led Senate passed legislation Thursday rolling back the state’s tax law on pensions with some bipartisan support, rejecting amendments and calls by Republicans to provide an equal tax break for all seniors. Passing by a vote of 23-15 was SB 1 , which would roll back changes to the […]
Whitmer urges ‘immediate’ tax relief, gun reforms in Michigan
Lansing — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called for immediate tax relief to help Michiganians cope with rising prices and “commonsense” action to combat gun violence on Wednesday night in a speech that laid out her policy vision for the first year of her second term. Whitmer, a Democrat who was reelected […]
STORY UPDATED – Upper Peninsula Human Trafficking Task Force distributes story on missing Clare Co woman
UPDATE: Authorities with the Clare County Sheriff’s Office found a missing woman deceased in a wooded area on Saturday, January, 28. Sara Elizabeth Burns, 34, was reported missing on Jan. 17. She was last seen leaving her residence in the Houghton Lake-area on Jan. 9. According to the sheriff’s office, […]














