The Red Raiders of Portland traveled to Charlotte this past Friday. Games like this are what I call a trap game. A trap game is one played the week before your biggest game of the year. I call it a ...

Diane E. Russell, age 86, of Lansing formerly of Portland, passed away on Friday, October 16, 2026. She was born on November ...

Gerald Neil Wells, age 83, of Portland, passed away on Tuesday, October 13, 2026. He was born on August 2, 1943 in Portland, ...

More than 1,880 students from Saginaw Valley State University earned a spot on the winter 2026 semester Deans' List. To be ...

On October 1st, we publish a piece including reader submitted questions and answers from five candidates running for open ...

Louie Spitzley owned the bowling alley and his daughter, Marie, ran it for her dad. There were three alleys when I was a ...

Scoutmaster Bryan Gehrcke says that Portland’s Scouts are having a fantastic year, making friends, serving their community, ...

While we in Portland may not have as much going on as the bigger cities do, we still have plenty of news worth sharing. Here ...

In the northernmost reaches of Michigan, there lies a region that the locals have termed Copper Island. The entire top of the ...

Every day, veterans enter PTSD treatment, service members deploy, and patients begin lengthy hospitalizations. Yet many face ...

Trisha Marie is a singer-songwriter and mom right here in Portland. She recently told the Beacon, “I write and produce my ...