Wakefield News

The Wakefield Historical Society hosted its Hometown Variety Show that drew a crowd of around 100 people to the Wakefield- Marenisco High School music room-auditorium on Wednesday.

Theatre-goers took a trip down the rabbit hole with 51 local children during performances of "Alice in Wonderland" Saturday at the Historic Ironwood Theatre.

Anthony Michael Adams was sentenced by Honorable Judge Gotham to 12 to 30 years in the Michigan Department of Corrections.

Michigan State Police, assisted by the Department of Natural Resources and the Coast Guard, helped find a mother and child who were reported missing in Porcupine Mountain State Park.

The Wakefield City Council adopted a "resolution supporting local community stabilization and personal property tax without raising taxes" at its meeting Monday evening.

A series of severe thunderstorms accompanied by torrential rains wreaked havoc on the Gogebic Range and adjacent parts of northwest Wisconsin in late June 1946.

Bessemer - After a four-hour Gogebic County Court hearing Friday on the Aug. 5 consolidation question between Bessemer and Wakefield- Marenisco school districts, a consent judgment was approved to have it removed from the ballot.

One man is dead after an crash involving a moped and a passenger car in Gogebic County.

A moped rider was killed in a crash on U.S. Highway 2 between Wakefield and Bessemer, Mich.

A wild weather day was experienced across the Upper Peninsula on this date 75 years ago, all part of the wettest June on record for at least the central portion of the U.P. It started with a "Giant Hailstone Downpour" on the Gogebic Range during the early morning.