11/24/2025

UPPER MICHIGAN - The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) is dedicating over $1.3 million from its Forestry Assistance Program to 18 conservation districts. This funding, highlighted by Director Tim Boring, promotes sustainable forest management through outreach and technical assistance. Specifically in the Upper Peninsula, district foresters help private landowners with management plans, timber valuation, and harvesting. Additionally, conservation districts assist landowners in enrolling in MDARD’s Qualified Forest Program (QFP), which offers a property tax exemption for following a professional management plan and conducting sustainable harvests to maintain forest health. In the U.P., the Iron-Baraga, Gogebic and Houghton-Keweenaw Conservation districts along with four other districts are slated to receive $72,000 each.

11/24/2025

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say Morgan Geyser who admitted to nearly stabbing a classmate to death in 2014 to please the horror character Slender Man has been found in Illinois after she cut off an electronic monitoring device and left a group home. Madison police issued an alert Sunday for Morgan Geyser, saying she was last seen around 8 p.m. the night before with an adult acquaintance. Police in Posen, Illinois, south of Chicago, confirmed that the 23-year-old woman was found at a truck stop and taken into custody Sunday night. Geyser was placed in a group home after being granted conditional release from psychiatric hospital. She was sent there in 2018 after pleading guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide.  Yesterday Tom Tiffany representative for Northern Wisconsin and Republican candidate for Governor her blaming escape on weak judges, who refuse to hold criminals accountable.

11/24/2025

IRONWOOD – Ironwood gas prices dropping below $3 per gallon ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday travel period.  Drivers are now paying an average of $3.11 for a gallon of regular unleaded gas. Michigan’s average is $3.07 per gallon.  In Upper Michigan, the lowest average is in Marquette County at $2.81. The highest average is in Mackinac County at $3.27.  Ironwood prices at $2.88 per gallon.