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State issues Line 5 permits despite conceding its ‘significant impacts’

LANSING — State agencies on Wednesday issued key permits for the controversial Line 5 tunnel in the Straits of Mackinac, concluding the project’s benefits outweigh drawbacks that include disruption to Native American burial sites and harm to wetlands and rare species. The permits issued ...

Drifa Brewery announces it will close in November

MARQUETTE — Drifa Brewery in south Marquette announced on Wednesday that it will be closing its doors around mid-November. “From navigating the challenges of a pandemic shutdown and road construction the next summer to weathering management changes, keeping a local craft brewery afloat ...

Iron Mountain Man extradited from Alaska to face rape charges

IRON MOUNTAIN — The Michigan State Police report that a 42-year-old Iron Mountain man has been extradited from Ketchikan, Alaska, to Dickinson County after being charged with first and second degree criminal sexual conduct. According to a MSP news release, on Dec. 23, allegations of ...

In Michigan, 100K live downstream of old, decrepit dams

CALEDONIA TOWNSHIP — Jonathan Korbecki was relaxing at home on the Thornapple River one rainy February night when the fire marshal knocked on his door, warning the nearby Labarge Dam may fail and send a wall of water his way. Hundreds of yards of trucked-in sand prevented disaster that ...