Alger County News

An Alger County Sheriff's Department Deputy will serve twelve months of probation after pleading no contest to a charge of assaulting an inmate in the county jail.

Sixth graders in Munising are now graduates of the DARE Program. Monday morning, parents and community members joined the 60 sixth graders at Mather Elementary for a graduation ceremony.

Kindergarten through twelfth grade students at Superior Central School in Alger County are finishing up an interesting agricultural project that they began in the fall of 2012.

An Alger County school administrator is facing additional sexual conduct charges for his alleged involvement with a female teenage student.

Fast Facts: - The Michigan Department of Transportation owns and maintains 32 roadside parks in the Upper Peninsula.

Another tornado destroys several barns near Tekonsha in Calhoun County. 1964 - An F2 tornado touched down in Alger County just northwest of Eben Junction in the early evening.

When firefighters responded around 7 a.m., they found the small house on Military Road in Onota Township completely engulfed.

At the Munising City Commission meeting Wednesday the City Manager announced he's retiring.

Police say an Iraq War veteran thwarted two would-be burglars at his northern Michigan gas station by kicking one of them and ordering them away with an AR-15 rifle.