SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — An ice sculpture of an American Indian in headdress has been removed from the front of a hotel in the Upper Peninsula.

The sculpture was created as part of Sault Ste. Marie’s Ice Festival. Aaron Payment, chairman of the Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians, said ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard is warning residents of islands in the river connecting Lake Superior and Lake Huron in northern Michigan that they could be cut off from ferry service during next week’s deep freeze.

Those who live on Sugar and Neebish islands in the St. ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — A storm dropped more than a foot (1/3 meter) of snow on parts of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, creating hazardous driving conditions and keeping some students home from school.

The National Weather Service says the largest snowfall totals Monday were observed ...

SAULT STE MARIE, Mich. (AP) — An annual ice-breaking effort is starting on waterways in and around northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula.

The U.S. Coast Guard Sector Sault Ste. Marie says Operation Taconite commenced Monday in response to expanded ice growth in commercial ports along ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — A roughly $21 million federal grant will go toward repairing a dock near the Soo Locks in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

The Carbide Dock Port in Sault Ste. Marie is a staging area for vessels requiring assistance. The money would pay for rehabilitating the dock ...

DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will spend $32.4 million in the coming year for a channel deepening project that will be an important step toward construction of a new Great Lakes shipping lock.

The funds will be used to finish design and begin construction work on ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed a bill that’s a key step toward building a long-sought shipping lock on the waterway linking Lake Huron and Lake Superior.

Funding authorization for the Soo Locks project was included in

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — Congress has taken a key step toward building a long-sought shipping lock on the waterway linking Lakes Huron and Superior.

Funding authorization for the Soo Locks project was included in a water resources bill that cleared the Senate on Wednesday. It now ...

MENOMINEE, Mich. (AP) — State officials are making a rapid tour of the Upper Peninsula to help families learn about financial aid for college.

Workshops begin Monday at Menominee High School in Menominee and Bay College West in Iron Mountain. Treasury Department representatives also will ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — A fire science scholarship at Lake Superior State University has been created to honor a student who died.

The Sault Ste. Marie school says the Justin Kelly Memorial Endowment is made possible by family and friends of Kelly, a fire science student from ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — Lake Superior State University is breaking ground on what’s billed as a year-round center for research and education about upper Great Lakes ecosystems.

The Sault Ste. Marie school said the official groundbreaking ceremony is set for Friday at Alford Park ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says construction of a second Great Lakes navigation lock for large freighters will be included in its 2020 budget request to the Trump administration.

Lt. Col. Dennis Sugrue of the agency’s Detroit district said Monday the ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — A new committee has been formed to help prevent more ferry service interruptions after some residents in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula couldn’t access the mainland for nearly a month.

Sugar Island resident Tim Moher is leading the effort to form the St. Marys ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — Two Canadians are dead after a small plane crashed at an airport in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

The crash occurred Saturday at Sanderson Municipal Airport in Sault Ste. Marie. The Federal Aviation Administration says the plane stalled and went down. Photos ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — A former ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council will speak at Lake Superior State University’s commencement ceremony.

Keith Harper, who served as President Barack Obama’s ambassador to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, speaks Saturday at the ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court says an Upper Peninsula judge was right to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a woman who fell into a 6-foot (2-meter) hole dug to fix a water pipe.

The state’s high court issued an

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court has crossed the Mackinac Bridge for the first time, hearing a case in the Upper Peninsula as part of an effort to take its work outside Lansing.

The case is a dispute over liability in a golf cart crash in suburban Detroit. A golfer ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — U.S. and Canadian Coast Guard cutters are breaking ice at several locations in the Great Lakes in preparation for resumption of the commercial shipping season.

The navigational locks at Sault Ste. Marie are scheduled to reopen Sunday after the winter ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — An official from Fisk University in Tennessee has been named the next president of Lake Superior State University in northern Michigan.

Lake Superior State says Monday the appointment of Rodney S. Hanley is effective July 1, pending approval by the school’s ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard is preparing to begin icebreaking operations in northwestern Lake Michigan.

The cutters Mackinaw and Mobile Bay are scheduled to begin work Tuesday on Green Bay. It’s part of the annual spring mission of clearing a path for shipments of ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a collision between a snowmobile and a snow trail grooming vehicle in Michigan’s eastern Upper Peninsula has left one person dead and one injured.

The crash happened Monday near the Alognquin Ski Trail in Chippewa County, near Sault St. ...

ST. IGNACE, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says five vessels have been stranded by ice in the Straits of Mackinac between Michigan’s Upper and Lower peninsulas.

The Coast Guard says Friday it’s sending the cutter Biscayne Bay to assist the vessels on the waterway that connects Lake ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says ice-breaking ships have freed two vessels that were stuck in the St. Marys River.

Coast Guard officials said Thursday that the cutter Biscayne Bay freed one vessel from the up-bound channel Middle Neebish Channel where it became ...

NEEBISH ISLAND, Mich. (AP) — A 1,000-foot (305-meter) freighter has been freed from ice off the eastern edge of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

MLive.com reports Wednesday that the James R. Barker ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — Veterans’ advocates in the Upper Peninsula are using military boots as receptacles for donations that will benefit veterans in need.

Boots are displayed near cash registers at 26 businesses in Chippewa County, including Sault Ste. Marie. More than $2,500 was ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — The public is getting a chance to offer design suggestions for the Center for Freshwater Research and Education at Lake Superior State University.

The first session is scheduled for 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Walker Cisler Center Crow’s Nest on the campus in ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — A university in the Upper Peninsula is offering a daylong event to learn about the natural resources of the region.

Two environmental groups are sponsoring an event Saturday called Celebrate the U.P. Sault Ste. Marie. There will be speakers and hands-on ...

KINCHELOE, Mich. (AP) — A food worker says he was fired after refusing to serve rotten potatoes to inmates at a northern Michigan prison.

Steve Pine of Sault Ste. Marie, who has worked for Trinity Services Group at Kinross Correctional Facility since July 2016, tells the

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — Officials are celebrating the conclusion of the Little Rapids Restoration Project, which is boosting water flow on the St. Marys River near Sault Ste. Marie.

The project included building a new bridge to replace two deteriorating causeway culverts between ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says the St. Marys River has reopened after it was closed to commercial vessel traffic when a 629-foot Great Lakes freighter ran aground.

Coast Guard officials say the cargo vessel Calumet was re-floated Friday at about 8:50 p.m. and ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says it has approved plans by owners to refloat a 629-foot Great Lakes freighter aground in the St. Marys River.

Officials say Grand River Navigation Inc. plans include off-loading ballast to refloat the vessel named Calumet. The effort ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — An Indian tribe says it will continue its efforts to build gambling facilities in Lansing and near Detroit Metropolitan Airport following a new setback.

The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians says it received a letter this week from the U.S. Department of ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — Lake Superior State University says its board of trustees has named Peter Mitchell its interim president following the death President Thomas Pleger.

Mitchell was president of Albion College from 1997-2007. Since then, he has operated a consulting company, ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — Officials say the bridge linking Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with Canada will be closed for an hour Saturday morning for the 31st Annual Bridge Walk and Bicycle Parade.

The bridge crosses the St. Marys River between Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and the ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — Even as the weather heats up, the Great Lakes remain dangerously cold.

The U.S. Coast Guard says water temperatures in the lakes are ranging from the high 30s to the low 50s. Water safety specialist Mike Baron of the Ninth Coast Guard District says water as ...

DETROIT (AP) — President Donald Trump’s spending plan for 2018 includes $77.6 million for operation and maintenance of Great Lakes shipping channels and related infrastructure, including the lock system at Sault Ste. Marie.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Detroit District oversees ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — Drop a line: Fishing season is starting in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

The state Department of Natural Resources says the seasons for walleye, northern pike and muskellunge open Monday for all Upper Peninsula waters. That includes the Great Lakes, inland ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — Lake Superior State University says its board of trustees has named David Roland Finley its acting president following the death President Thomas Pleger.

The university said Friday that Finley will manage its general operations while the board starts a ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — Lake Superior State University is holding a one-hour memorial for its president who died after brain surgery.

The event is scheduled for Thursday at the Arts Center auditorium at the Sault Ste. Marie campus. Thomas Pleger died Sunday at age 48.

He was ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — Lake Superior State University says school President Thomas Pleger has died following brain surgery. He was 48.

School spokesman John Shibley says Pleger’s wife, Teresa, told school administrators her husband died Sunday, two days after undergoing brain ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — State officials announced Wednesday that drivers will soon be allowed to go 75 mph on 600 miles of Michigan freeways, including major corridors connecting the state’s northern and southern regions.

The first freeways affected are Interstate 75 between Bay City and ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan has identified rural highways where the speed limit will rise to 75 mph as soon as next week.

The state on Wednesday announced 600 miles where the limits will increase from 70 mph to 75 mph, and 900 miles where they will go from 55 mph to 65 mph.

The ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — Lake Superior State University is celebrating its past and future with a building dedication.

The school in the Upper Peninsula city of Sault Ste. Marie held a ceremony Friday for R.W. Considine Hall. The university renovated and expanded South Hall, ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has wrapped up icebreaking operations for the season in the western Great Lakes.

Mild winter temperatures produced below-average ice cover on the lakes. The Coast Guard says ice had no significant effect on commercial navigation this ...