MARQUETTE — Marquette County will assist the Upper Peninsula 911 Authority with a project to upgrade Marquette County Central Dispatch’s call processing equipment. The Marquette County Board unanimously approved a motion to use county funds to cover a match of just over $33,000 for a Next ...
LANSING — Michigan lawmakers on Wednesday swiftly passed a $62.7 billion budget that would keep spending flat thanks to a federal rescue and avoid major cuts that had been feared due to the coronavirus pandemic. The bipartisan plan was unveiled in the morning and won final approval by ...
LANSING — The MI Healthy Climate Plan was created Wednesday with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signing Executive Order 2020-182 and Executive Directive 2020-10, according to an announcement from the governor’s office. The governor’s “comprehensive plan will protect Michiganders’ public ...
LANSING — Michiganders seeking their 10-cent deposit on bottles and cans will soon have more options for redeeming their deposits, according to the Michigan Department of Treasury. Starting on Oct. 5, all grocery stores, supermarkets, convenience stores, gas stations and other retailers ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Kentucky grand jury brought no charges against Louisville police for the killing of Breonna Taylor during a drug raid gone wrong, with prosecutors saying Wednesday that two officers who fired their weapons at the Black woman were justified in using force to protect ...
MARQUETTE — The Peter White Public Library in Marquette will be open for express walk-in services starting on Monday. Express walk-in hours will be 3 to 6 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. The building has been closed to the public since ...
The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus topped 200,000 Tuesday, by far the highest in the world, hitting the once-unimaginable threshold. “It is completely unfathomable that we’ve reached this point,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, a Johns Hopkins University public health researcher, eight ...
ST. IGNACE — There is insufficient evidence to support criminal charges against St. Ignace Chief of Police Tony Brown, according to a Michigan State Police press release. The Michigan attorney general reviewed the case, which was related to a May 28 complaint alleging that Brown committed ...
MARQUETTE — Mission XVIII of the Upper Peninsula Honor Flight was originally slated for May 20. However, the COVID-19 pandemic led to it being rescheduled for today. But with the pandemic continuing, Mission XVIII was rescheduled again. The 18th U.P. Honor Flight is set to take place on ...
SAGINAW — The Michigan State Police are seeking assistance in locating a downstate man who has been missing since Thursday. Karl Adam Marker, 87, left his Kochville Township residence around 8 a.m. Thursday, according to a press release issued Monday by the Michigan State Police. He was ...
MARQUETTE — Local veterinarian Dr. Tracy Nyberg and her family on Thursday revealed opening plans for Stuga North Veterinary Care, a full-service small animal veterinary clinic scheduled to open in late October. “We are grateful and thrilled for the opportunity to provide quality ...
MARQUETTE — The Michigan Senate Advice and Consent Committee has until Oct. 13 to consider Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s reappointment of Victoria Enyart to the state’s tax tribunal. The committee is expected to meet on Thursday to consider Enyart’s appointment. However, calls for ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A statue of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be built in her native Brooklyn, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday. Ginsburg died Friday of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. A legal trailblazer and champion of women’s ...
MARQUETTE — The Ishpeming Ski Club is asking the public to provide information on a recent spate of “serious vandalism” at its facilities in western Marquette County, officials say. ISC head ski jump coach Gary Rasmussen said he noticed early last week that one of the club’s picnic ...
NEGAUNEE — The Peninsula Arts Appreciation Council provided an update on the status of the Historic Vista Theater on Thursday. PAAC members voted unanimously at a Sept. 14 PAAC meeting to allow the theater board to move forward with all efforts, up to and including negotiating a possible ...
MARQUETTE — The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way justice has been administered across the United States since March. Even locally, the need to remain socially distant in order to reduce the spread of the virus meant an abrupt cessation of jury trials and a drastic change in how trial ...
MARQUETTE — Chocolay Township will dig into its general fund reserves to make improvements to a portion of Poplar Trail, a county road near Little Lake Road that intersects Karen Road. The Chocolay Township Board unanimously approved spending $10,964 in reserve funds for its 60% share of ...
