A flotilla of more than 50 kayaks and canoes takes shape on Lake Huron for the Pipe Up Paddle Out event Saturday, August 30, 2025. (Erich T. Doerr/St. Ignace News) Environmental and political organiza ...

The Mackinaw City Village Council discusses updates to the special events policy during their meeting Thursday, September 4, 2025. (Kaleb Boyer/St. Ignace News) The Mackinaw City Village Council will ...

The Alger County Sheriff’s Office is actively investigating a case involving a missing Munising Township woman. The woman is identified as 65-year-old Starla Goings who was last seen leaving he ...

All St. Ignace Area Schools students will start the 2025-26 school year with classes in the elementary and middle school building as high school renovations are taking longer than expected Wednesday, ...

Sen. John Damoose deserves great credit for his sincere efforts to resolve and fix any issues the village of Mackinaw City or the city of St. Ignace have with SB 304. Mackinac Island ha ...

Vaccine funding eliminated, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel let go in one fell swoop, 1,200 employees at the National Institutes of Health fir ...

Kinross Charter Township is home to both the Michigan Department of Corrections’ Chippewa Correctional Facility and Kinross Correctional Facility, with both looking to fill numerous positions right no ...

The St. Ignace Marina will be busy on Labor Day weekend as it hosts the 48th annual Arts Dockside craft show with numerous vendor tents set up offering all kinds of items. (Erich T. Doerr/St. Ignace N ...

People stop for photos as they walk across the Mackinac Bridge on Labor Day in 2022. (Alexis Rankin/St. Ignace News) Labor Day Weekend is the final farewell to the summer months, but it also means ten ...

Hessel’s drum Mukwa Giizhik, translating as Bear of the Cedars, was one of four that was used during the Rendezvous at the Straits Powwow, including playing an intertribal song Saturday afternoon, Aug ...

A case of West-Nile virus has been confirmed in Emmet County. (Adobe Stock Photo) The Health Department of Northwest Michigan is reporting a confirmed case of West Nile Virus in Emmet County.

The construction site for St. Ignace’s upcoming Biggby Coffee location is cleared and leveled with two excavators Monday, August 18, 2025. (Erich T. Doerr/St. Ignace News) A construction site is takin ...