ALPENA — Alpena County will have a balanced budget for the first time in many years to kick off the 2025 fiscal year with fewer cuts than expected. Larger cuts could still loom for the 2026 fiscal ...

This time of year, we all start to think about what we’re thankful for. Amid the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, it’s easy to overlook the simple things in life that we take for granted on a ...

Fourth-grade students have been learning their way around the kitchen, and participating in art projects at Art in the Loft as part of the Ready, Set, Create! program. On Wednesday, instructor Jess ...

LANSING – Student researchers from Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are among the five winners of an Environmental Protection Agency national contest for innovations ...

Michigan communities will soon benefit from the addition of 52 state troopers who graduated Thursday from the 147th Trooper Recruit School, according to a press release from the Michigan State Police.

The 2023-24 winter was the warmest on record in the U.S. with average temperatures throughout the state above freezing, with close to average precipitation, according to the National Weather Service.

While the opioid crisis continues to plague the U.S., Michigan’s overdose rate has dropped in recent years. Health officials and lawmakers are addressing the crisis by expanding access to life-saving ...

Recent actions by law enforcement agencies in Northeast Michigan. This has been only lightly edited. MONTMORENCY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE News Release Nov. 18, 2024 Total: 121 Alarms: 0 Animal Control: ...

Alpena Township has a new chief executive, and we welcome her and wish her well. New Supervisor Abbi Kaszubowski, who was sworn in Wednesday, and her Board of Trustees have a long list of things that ...

If you are planning to have a float or entry in this year’s Bolenz Jewelry Holiday Parade, make sure to get your forms into the Alpena Area Chamber of Commerce office before 5 p.m. on Monday. The ...

The two finalists to become Trump’s Treasury Secretary — the person will have a major hand in cutting taxes for the wealthy and raising tariffs so everyone pays more — are Howard Lutnick, who’s CEO of ...

Donald Trump said Wednesday that he has chosen former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker to serve as U.S. ambassador to NATO, the bedrock Western alliance that the president-elect has expressed ...