MARQUETTE - The Michigan Department of Transportation continues to adjust spring weight restriction areas in an annual move to protect roads. Effective 7 a.m. today, weight restrictions will be lifted on all state trunkline highways from the southern Michigan border north to and including ...
MARQUETTE — The Michigan Association of Superintendents and Administrators Region I meeting was held on Wednesday at the Northern Center on the Northern Michigan University campus. In attendance was Dr. Glenn Maleyko, who took the office of state superintendent at the end of last year. ...
MARQUETTE — Last week, Upper Peninsula state Reps. Dave Prestin, Greg Markkanen and Karl Bohnak, all members of the Republican Party, proposed legislation which would sponsor the creation of a veterans’ cemetery in the Upper Peninsula. House Bill 5843 of 2026 was introduced by Prestin and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. The bill appropriates funds to conduct a cemetery location analysis and feasibility study by the Michigan veterans affairs agency, as well as creates an Upper Peninsula veterans’ cemetery fund. The total estimated cost of the project is $5.7 million ...
MARQUETTE — On Monday, Michael Sivula, a contractor from Gwinn, was found guilty of 11 total charges over seven cases. The charges included counts of false pretenses of over $1,000 but less than $20,000 and using a computer to commit a crime, with a habitual offender notice attached to several of the charges. “In this particular case, we had been set for trial and then a day prior (Sivula) elected to plead guilty to all charges,” said Marquette County Prosecutor Jenna Nelson. “He didn’t plead per any type of plea agreement; none was offered. He just straight-up pled. It’s ...
MARQUETTE — Stephen Adamini, longtime Democrat and member of the Marquette County Board of Commissioners who resigned the position in late March citing, among other things, health, has died. According to multiple reports including the Office of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Adamini, 81, died ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com. MARQUETTE — Nick Marco left his job as a corrections officer at a maximum security Upper Peninsula prison after being stabbed by ...
