The Alpena Municipal Council is hosting a special joint meeting with the Alpena Planning Commission on Wednesday at 5 p.m. in the council chambers at city hall. During the meeting, Alpena’s capital ...

Michigan welcomes the large, magnificent snowy owl from the Arctic tundra – and its appearance can attract a lot of attention! This season, these elusive visitors have been seen across the state.

The odds of further interest rate cuts this year by the Federal Reserve dwindled last week as unemployment fell and more officials say they want to see how new policies from the White House affect the ...

The Alpena Wildcats boys basketball team fell to the Petoskey Northmen 81-56 on Monday night. Despite a slow start, Alpena ...

At their workshop meeting Monday night, the Alpena Public Schools Board of Education got into a heated discussion over the ...

Three Alpena High School wrestlers placed at the MHSAA Individual District Tournament over the weekend, earning a spot at ...

Nearly 200 nations faced a Monday deadline to file what the United Nations’ climate chief calls “among the most important policy documents governments will produce this century” — their plans on how ...

Planning the family budget is a relatively easy task as long as you know where the money is coming from and you are pretty sure the flow of dough won’t be abruptly cut off. Any uncertainty over the ...

President Donald Trump says he has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, citing the rising cost of producing the one-cent coin. “For far too long the United States has minted ...

The U.S. Agency for International Development has lost almost all ability to track $8.2 billion in unspent humanitarian aid following the Trump administration’s foreign funding freeze and idling of ...

After months of being classified as being in severe drought, the National Drought Monitor now categorizes Alpena County as exhibiting moderate drought conditions. The on-and-off lake effect snow ...

Courtesy Photo Huron Heat out of Oscoda was first place in the gold bracket of the Arsenal Volleyball Tournament on Feb. 1, winning the tournament which featured 16 teams. In the back row, from left ...