When the weather warms up, Alpena transforms into a summer paradise ... New Presque Isle Lighthouse features three historic buildings, including a museum. The property also offers a playground ...

While Michigan often sees a day or two of warm weather early in the season, the weather service said March 2012 brought an historic heat wave. On March 27 that year it was 87 degrees in Alpena.

Alpena Power serves about 16,750 electric customers covering 250 square miles in the northeastern Lower Peninsula of Michigan and said 99% of its customers were without power. The two utilities ...

Alpena, Michigan, and Amberley, Ontario. John O’Shea is a professor at the University of Michigan and the curator of Great Lakes Archaeology at the U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology.