ESCANABA, Mich. (WJMN) — The state announced on Wednesday a settlement with Verso Corporation over national pollutant discharge elimination system violations at the company’s Escanaba Paper Mill.

As we prepare to usher in a new year, the Daily Press is looking back on top stories from 2025. This is part two of four, ...

ESCANABA, Mich. (AP) — A paper mill in Michigan's Upper Peninsula has agreed to pay nearly $250,000 to settle an investigation of a fish kill in the Escanaba River, state regulators said. A couple of ...

A common soil fungus sickened more than 150 Michigan paper mill workers, and killed one, in what health officials called the largest such outbreak in U.S. history, but the exact cause remains elusive, ...

Notable stories in the region in 2025 included stellar performances by area softball, basketball and robotics teams; fires at ...

DELTA COUNTY, Mich. (WPBN/WGTU) -- Fisheries officials with Michigan are investigating a fish kill on the Escanaba River. The fish kill incident was reported August 9 along the lower reaches of the ...

State officials are investigating after a fish kill was discovered downstream of a paper mill on the Escanaba River. A conservation officer reported a possible fish kill had occurred Sunday in the ...

A crane moves a log of paper at a NewPage mill in Escanaba. ESCANABA — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer recently signed legislation into law to secure millions in funding for a major Escanaba paper mill. The ...

ESCANABA, MI - Investigators from two state agencies are looking into a fish kill incident that occurred last weekend on the middle branch of the Escanaba River in the Upper Peninsula’s Delta County. ...

CORNELL – My second cast into one of the “dynamite holes” on the Escanaba River resulted in a strike. A feisty 14-inch rainbow trout tried to extricate itself from my spinner to no avail. I brought it ...

Pollutants from a Delta County paper mill caused a fish kill earlier this month in the Escanaba River at Gladstone in the Upper Peninsula, state officials said this week. They also said it appears the ...

ESCANABA, Mich. — A paper mill in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has agreed to pay nearly $250,000 to settle an investigation of a fish kill in the Escanaba River, state regulators said. A “catastrophic ...