Emotions are likely to run high over a plan to remove the traffic signal at the busy intersection of M-32 and Bagley Street in Alpena, replacing it with a roundabout.

U.S. Senator Gary Peters helped advance the annual national defense bill to the full senate, and helped secure $23 million in the bill for the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center.

Alpena County Commissioners this week, voted unanimously to hire a local company to help guide it through the process of spending approximately $5.52 million in American Rescue Plan funding.

A section of Long Lake Avenue in Alpena will be closed for most of next week so Lake State Railway can reconstruct the railroad crossing near its headquarters, north of Commerce Drive.

Based on new guidelines established by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), everyone in the Alpena area should be wearing masks in public indoor spaces, even if they have received the COVID-19 vaccine.

A total of 13 inmates of the Montmorency County Jail were transported to Alpena earlier this month, and are now being housed inside the local jail off Johnson Street.

Alpena Public Schools has decided to spend some of the COVID-19 relief money it has received from the federal government to replace carpeting in all classroom at Ella White Elementary School.