LANSING – Governor Gretchen Whitmer has ordered U.S. and Michigan flags within the State Capitol Complex and upon all public buildings and grounds across the State of Michigan to be lowered to half-staff immediately to honor and remember the victims of Sunday's shooting at the Church of Jesus ...
Congressional candidate Callie Barr will host a virtual press briefing at 1 p.m. on Tuesday on the growing health care crisis in Northern Michigan, a press release from Barr's office stated. Barr is a Democrat from Traverse City. According to the release, Barr's discussion will focus on ...
ALPENA — On Thursday night, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced that leaders in the state House and state Senate had reached a budget deal that will likely stave off a state government shutdown. Most financial details in the budget have yet to be released, and at this point many ...
ALPENA — Captain Nick Myers and Stephanie Gandulla, Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary (TBNMS) resource protection coordinator, have started to remove mooring buoys from sanctuary waters for the season. Gandulla stated that the mooring buoys are the sanctuary’s “most important ...
ALPENA — Sea lamprey management efforts will occur offshore of Devil’s Lake in Alpena County next month. According to a recent U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service press release, personnel will begin applying lampricides to an area of Devil’s Lake to kill sea lamprey larvae burrowed in the ...
LANSING – New federal policy is aimed at addressing the nation’s wildfire crisis by boosting timber production, but some experts say it’s not expected to have a major impact in Michigan. There are more than 2.5 million acres of national forest in the Northern Lower Peninsula and Upper ...