2/18/2026

LANSING - Michigan lawmakers are seeking answers after the state shelved a $1.1 million report on Native American boarding schools. Bridge Michigan reports a House subcommittee set a hearing for Feb. 27 to try and determine why the study was scrapped. A consulting firm finished the 300-page report in September, but the state never released it and a summary presented to lawmakers left out recommendations. Michigan’s tribes had hoped a report would document the abuses and deaths of Native American children over more than a century in state boarding schools, as well as determine the extent to which the state and local municipalities were involved.

WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY

WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM CST THIS EVENING TO 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ WEDNESDAY...for Gogebic, Ontonagon Counties in Michigan and Iron and Ashland Counties in Wisconsin. Mixed precipitation expected. Total snow accumulations between 2 and 4 inches and ice accumulations around one tenth of an inch. Highest snow accumulations north of US-2, locally up to 5 inches in Ontonagon County.  WINTER STORM WARNING GOES IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO NOON CST THURSDAY...for Bayfield County.  Total snow accumulations of 5 to 8 inches Winds gusting as high as 45 mph.  BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS GOES EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO NOON THURSDAY...for the North Shore of Minnesota. Total snow accumulations between 10 and 18 inches. Easterly winds gusting as high as 60 mph.

2/17/2026

BESSEMER – In information released yesterday an Iron County man has been sentenced in Gogebic County Court after being convicted on drug charges.  45-year-old David John Trovillion from Montreal, WI was sentenced last week in Gogebic County on two separate felony counts related to the possession of methamphetamine in the City of Ironwood in April 2025 according to Nicholas Jacobs, Gogebic County Prosecuting Attorney.  Trovillion was a passenger in a vehicle which was stopped for traffic violations as well as probable cause to believe that drugs were being transported into Gogebic County following a month’s long investigation by the Gogebic-Iron narcotics team also known as GIANT. Trovillion was sentenced to prison by Judge Michael K. Pope. For the Possession of methamphetamine within 1000’ of school property charge Trovillion was sentenced to 5 years, 11 months minimum to a maximum of 30 years, enhanced as being a habitual offender. On a Resisting and obstructing an officer charge he was sentenced to 1 year minimum to 2 years maximum. At the time of arrest Trovillion was out on parole in Wisconsin and had pending misdemeanor charges in Iron County, WI.