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Sunny Days In-Home Care joins chamber

IRON MOUNTAIN — Sunny Days In-Home Care recently joined the Dickinson Area Chamber of Commerce, which hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate. Sunny Days In-Home Care offers a variety of senior care services, including with the Upper Peninsula Health Plan waiver, in the comfort of the ...

Stephens Real Estate has top performers in region

Stephens Real Estate has announced that two of its agents have been recognized as top performers in 2024 by the Upper Peninsula Association of Realtors’ rankings of 137 agents in the Greater Iron Mountain Area MLS. Ryan Gordon, Stephens’ owner and broker in the Iron Mountain office, ...

Private equity firm to acquire Walgreens for almost $10B

NEW YORK (AP) — Walgreens Boots Alliance says it has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Sycamore Partners as the struggling retailer looks to turn itself around after years of losing money. Walgreens said Thursday that Sycamore will pay $11.45 per share, giving the deal an equity ...

US firm BlackRock poised to acquire Panama Canal ports

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama President Jose Raul Mulino has accused U.S. President Donald Trump of lying when he said in his address to Congress that his administration was “reclaiming” the Panama Canal. Trump was referencing a deal announced Tuesday for a consortium led by the U.S. ...

Trump grants temporary exemption for US automakers from new tariffs on imports

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is granting a one-month exemption on his stiff new tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada for U.S. automakers, as worries persist that the newly launched trade war could crush domestic manufacturing. The pause comes after Trump spoke with leaders ...

Trump wants to use ‘God Squad’ to increase logging in national forests

President Donald Trump wants to increase logging in national forests and on public lands, including by bypassing endangered species protections. To do that, the federal government would have to activate a seldom-used committee nicknamed the “God Squad” because it can approve federal ...