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For deer life: IM hears public input on city park’s longtime feature

IRON MOUNTAIN — No decision has been reached, but city officials are weighing whether to phase out the enclosed deer habitat at Iron Mountain City Park. The council Monday heard from Quinnesec residents Jim and Amie Tefft, who encouraged the city to close the deer pen to allow such ...

Michigan and Wisconsin file citizenship suit

Attorneys general from 22 states sued Tuesday to block President Donald Trump's move to end a century-old immigration practice known as birthright citizenship guaranteeing that U.S.-born children are citizens regardless of their parents' status. Trump's roughly 700-word executive order, ...

Back to the Present

This week’s Back to the Present, provided by the Menominee Range Historical Museum in Iron Mountain, features the North Side Service Station on the southwest corner of Main Street and Stephenson Avenue of Iron Mountain. The station was operated by Joseph “Penny” Andreini and Louis ...

Three teens recovering after fatal UP crash

GWINN — The Forsyth Township Police Department has released the names of two men killed in a multiple-vehicle crash Friday afternoon on M-35 in Forsyth Township. The two, both drivers in the crash, were identified as 21-year-old Luke Matthew Kostreva of Negaunee and 37-year-old Jacob ...

Whitmer vetoes legislation passed in lame duck session

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has vetoed more than a dozen bills passed by the Democratic-led House and Senate during its drama-filled lame duck session last month. Among the legislation Whitmer rejected on Friday was a series of five bills that would have allowed the bipartisan Board of State ...

IM competes in High School Bowl

Iron Mountain played Gladstone in High School Bowl and was defeated by a score of 30-380. Thirty-six schools from the Upper Peninsula and Northern Wisconsin field teams for WNMU-TV’s High School Bowl tournament, now celebrating 46 years on the air. Running from November through the ...