MARQUETTE — Some local school boards will see changes to their membership, while voters in other communities elected several incumbents. Four incumbents were re-elected to terms on the Marquette Area Public Schools Board of Education during the Tuesday midterm elections. Trustee Kristen ...

MARQUETTE — Alger County residents cast their ballots Tuesday, determining who was seated on various boards and whether certain millage proposals passed or not. Several candidates were elected to seats on the Alger County Board of Commissioners. Representing District 1 will be Catherine ...

MARQUETTE —Running for the Michigan House of representatives for the 110th district, Tuesday ended with Republican Gregory Markkanen taking home the victory, which was decided by just over 500 votes The seat represents 6 western Upper Peninsula Counties as well as a portion of Marquette ...

MARQUETTE — Beyond approving several millages related to the Peter White Public Library, voters passed many other local proposals Tuesday. The proposals and the vote totals are: ≤ Forsyth Township: an increase of up to 1.6 mills, to be levied from 2018-27, for road improvements. The ...

MARQUETTE — All incumbent Marquette County Commissioners, who ran uncontested in the race, will retain their seats on the commission, according to unofficial results from the Marquette County Clerk. Commissioner John DePetro, the incumbent Democrat who holds the commission seat for the ...

LANSING (AP) — Republican Tom Leonard has conceded the race to be Michigan’s next attorney general to Democrat Dana Nessel. Nessel is an attorney whose biggest case was representing a lesbian couple in a lawsuit that overturned the state’s gay marriage ban. She also was an assistant ...

MARQUETTE — U.S. Taxpayer gubernatorial nominee Todd Schleiger, who’s running as an independent, discussed the democratic system and his plans to help fix several issues the state of Michigan potentially faces in a phone interview Wednesday morning. Schleiger, who’s from the Flint area ...

MARQUETTE — Voters in Tuesday’s primary election chose Ed McBroom of Vulcan to represent the Republican Party in the race for the Michigan Senate’s 38th District seat in the November general election. McBroom, who received 16,264 votes, or 69.32 percent of votes cast, faced Mike Carey ...

MARQUETTE — The question of who will be the Republican contender for the 110th District in the Michigan House of Representatives is very close, with two candidates within 24 votes of one another as of press time today, according to the Michigan Secretary of State website. As of this ...

MARQUETTE—Voters in six Marquette County townships approved 11 millage requests including general operating, recreation, police services and road millages according to preliminary election results provided by the Marquette County Clerk. Negaunee Township An .85 mill millage for the ...

MUNISING — Voters cast their ballots on a number of Alger County-wide proposals as well as several township proposals Tuesday. The 911 emergency telephone dispatch system proposal passed with 1,581 votes in favor of the proposal and 391 against. The proposal asked if the tax limitation on ...

ISHPEMING — Voters in the Michigan House District 110 will choose from four Republican candidates on Tuesday. The winner of the primary election will go on to face the sole Democratic candidate, Ken Summers, at the November general election. The district seat, which represents residents ...

NEGAUNEE — Negaunee Township officials are placing two new millages on Tuesday’s ballot, but the amount of property tax collected from residents will not increase. The township board elected to split its current 2-mill millage community center and recreation millage into a .85 mill ...

MARQUETTE —In addition to several county-wide proposals, several of the townships in Marquette County will place millage questions before voters on Tuesday. Road improvements police services and general operating are among the questions that will be put before voters in Ewing, Forsyth, ...

MARQUETTE — Two incumbents and six candidates are vying for two open seats on the Marquette City Commission in the Nov. 6 general election. The top four vote-getters determined after the Aug. 7 primary election will proceed to the general election in November. The non-partisan seven-member ...

MARQUETTE — Proposals for renewal of several Marquette County-wide millages will appear on the Aug. 7 ballot. The proposals include a millage to fund services for senior citizens, a millage for Marquette County Search and Rescue and Technical Rescue Unit programs and a millage for ...

MARQUETTE — Voters in the Aug. 7 primary election will choose the candidates who will run for the Michigan Senate’s 38th District seat. The 38th District encompasses much of the Upper Peninsula, including Alger, Baraga, Delta, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, Marquette, ...

MARQUETTE — Most proposals on Marquette County’s ballot were passed by voters in Tuesday’s general election. The Chocolay Township road improvement millage proposal passed with 1,175 votes for and 742 votes against. The proposal asked to levy a new millage of up to 1.7 mills on real and ...

MARQUETTE — Democratic challenger Sara Cambensy won the race for the 109th Michigan House of Representatives seat in Tuesday’s election. Cambensy won with 56.6 percent of the total 20,701 votes cast in the decision, according to unofficial results from clerks in Alger, Luce, Marquette and ...

MARQUETTE — Following Tuesday’s general election Munising Mayor Rod DesJardins has won re-election as member of the Munising City Commission by 136 votes against his opponent Johanna Bogater. DesJardins, a U.S. Navy veteran and past commander of the American Legion where he currently ...