MARQUETTE — A vehicle crash in Marquette Township Wednesday has the Michigan State Police post in Negaunee asking for the public’s help identifying a vehicle/driver who fled the scene. The incident took place around 3:45 p.m. Wednesday at the intersection of Ontario and West Fair avenues. ...
MARQUETTE — After a winter storm dumped nearly two feet of snow on Marquette in late December, the city of Marquette went into overdrive to get snow off of roads and sidewalks. When the flakes settled, what was left were enormous snowbanks between the sidewalk and the road, in some places ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com. LANSING — A group aiming to tighten voter ID rules and require proof of citizenship to register in Michigan says it has collected ...
MARQUETTE — IronArts Theatre and Peter White Public Library are coming together to provide a thrilling week of entertainment. At at 6 p.m. February 16-18, the library will be hosting performances of "Misery," a Tony-nominated play based on author Stephen King’s 1987 novel of the same ...
LANSING — The weekend killing of a US citizen by Border Patrol agents in Minnesota has sparked renewed calls for reform nationally and in Michigan, primarily by Democrats frustrated by Republican President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigrant deportation tactics. Deportations surged in Michigan last year, and the state is home to one of the largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities in the country. But Michigan has largely avoided the kind of high-profile conflicts between federal agents and citizens seen in Minnesota. The Trump administration has surged ...
In a bid to capitalize on recent bipartisan pushes to regulate the state’s hemp industry, Wisconsin Democrats have introduced a bill to fully legalize marijuana. But the effort to create legal recreational and medical programs is all but sure to fail. Republicans, who control both chambers of the Legislature, have not taken up previous Democratic attempts at legalization and have nixed repeated attempts by Gov. Tony Evers to include legalization in his state budgets. GOP leadership has said it will only consider limited medical programs. Still, Democrats who introduced their latest ...
