With a resounding no, the House rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s new plan Thursday to fund federal operations and suspend the debt ceiling a day before a government shutdown, as Democrats and ...

Alpena and Alpena Township have reached a settlement over water rates for the years 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017, but will need to continue to work on water rates deals for the years that followed. In a ...

The 2024 election is over. The voters voted, the two ignorant parties either celebrated their win or tried to figure out why they lost. Over and done, right? Not just yet, as I would like to put my ...

The Alpena Wildcats varsity girls basketball team faced Traverse City West in a closely contested game that ended in a 41-37 ...

The Wagon Wheel Bar and Grill in Ossineke is once again spreading joy and happiness during this holiday season. For the fifth ...

On Thursday, the Alpena boys varsity swim team traveled to Caro and took a big win, 89-72. “The team was two swimmers down which motivated everyone else to step up and give everything they had,” coach ...

ALPENA — Despite the fact that Alpena County recently had to lay off employees in order to balance the budget, and voters ...

News Photo by Maxwell Olmstead Carol Kowalski shops at the Big Lots in Alpena on Thursday. The retailer announced earlier in ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A fast-moving winter storm brought snow, ice, strong winds and bitter cold to much of the upper Midwest, snarling traffic in the Twin Cities and forcing North Dakota officials to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is pledging to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by more than 60% by 2035 as he fights to ensure his legacy on slowing global warming, even as President-elect ...

PONTIAC (AP) — A judge on Thursday refused to allow a Michigan school shooter to withdraw his guilty plea to two dozen charges, including terrorism and first-degree murder. Ethan Crumbley’s appellate ...

Applications to the Bernard F. and Melissa Anne Bailey Family Fund Health Care Scholarship program at MyMichigan Health are now available for the 2025-2026 school ...