MARQUETTE — The Marquette Board of Light and Power Board of Directors on Tuesday unanimously voted in favor of permanently taking its coal-fired Shiras Steam Plant offline, with the suggestion to demolish the facility before too long. Board member Ed Angeli was excused from the ...
MARQUETTE — Inside today’s issue of The Mining Journal is the newspaper’s annual Progress Edition, which provides readers with the area’s highlights for the past 12 months. With a dozen sections, stories cover a wide range of topics, from mining to dining and everything in ...
MARQUETTE — The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month denied the Marquette County Road Commission’s request to review the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to veto the construction of County Road 595, a proposed 21-mile road that would run between Marquette County Road AAA ...
MARQUETTE — Officials in Marquette Township are moving ahead with efforts to help the Marquette County Road Commission resolve runoff and drainage issues within township borders that are causing damage to roads. The Marquette Township Board at its March 19 meeting unanimously directed its ...
MARQUETTE — The Marquette City Commission on Monday unanimously passed a resolution in support of applying for a grant to build a universally accessible playground at Mattson Lower Harbor Park. Commissioners Jenna Smith and Jenn Hill were excused from the meeting. The inclusive playground ...
DETROIT — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, recently announced the new Soo Lock project in Sault Ste. Marie has been included in President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget request to Congress in the amount of roughly $75.3 million. These funds are sufficient to ...
NEGAUNEE— The newly revitalized Negaunee Downtown Development Authority is considering expanding its tax-increment financing, or TIF, district borders beyond the city’s traditional downtown. The DDA on Monday reviewed a TIF proposal from City Manager Nate Heffron that could increase the ...
LANSING — For Michiganders struggling with food insecurity, mobile food pantries are just one way to increase access to healthy foods, as a network of agencies works to bolster education and expand food services in hard-to-reach regions. Mobile pantries are a logical step in the fight ...
MONROE, Mich. — The River Raisin National Battlefield Park will begin most of the construction for the historic Michigan site’s estimated $100 million redevelopment next year. Toni Cooper, executive of the national park’s foundation, recently unveiled details and a timeline for the ...
MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University students had the opportunity to step into their shoes as future teachers for a day and educate local youth at the 2019 Winter Weekend College for Kids. Children registered for one of three courses depending on their age. Kindergarten and first grade ...
WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller did not find evidence that President Donald Trump’s campaign “conspired or coordinated” with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election but reached no conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice, Attorney General William Barr ...
MARQUETTE — Objects can take a variety of paths when they are discarded. They may be taken to a thrift store, brought to a landfill or recycled. They can also be diverted from these paths and repurposed to create works of art. Christine Lee, an assistant professor of wood/sustainability at ...
By CECILIA BROWN Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University’s EcoReps, a sustainability peer-to-peer education program for NMU students, is hosting multiple activities on campus for NMU Sustainability Week, which runs today through Saturday. All events are open to the ...
MARQUETTE — Foreign Flicks, a new program dedicated to contemporary films from around the world, presents the 2017 drama “Foxtrot” at 6 tonight in the Peter White Public Library’s Community Room. This is a BYO dinner event. Told in three acts, this drama reveals the stages of parental ...
By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is proposing a $180 million plan to boost the quality of tap water across Michigan, from replacing lead pipes and school drinking fountains to combating chemicals that are contaminating public supplies and private ...
CHATHAM — A group of people gathered at the Chatham Township Hall along M-94 Thursday evening to participate in a “community conversation” focused on ecotourism in the Upper Peninsula. About 15 people attended the workshop, which was was led by David Kronk, a former park ranger of the ...
DETROIT (AP) — Michigan eighth-graders will see changes in state testing this spring in a step that could better prepare students for college entrance exams. In April, the College Board’s PSAT 8/9 test will replace the Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress in math and English ...
From the Superior Watershed Partnership MARQUETTE — The Superior Watershed Partnership Land Conservancy has announced a new program to permanently protect over four miles of the wild Sturgeon River. This unique 944-acre parcel includes over 21,000 linear feet of riverfront property. ...
By MARY CLARE JALONICK and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats plotted strategy Saturday as they awaited the conclusions of Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, with senior lawmakers demanding full transparency and preparing for next steps if the ...
MARQUETTE — The Marquette City Commission will determine Monday whether to apply for a Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund Development grant to help fund a universally accessible playground at Mattson Lower Harbor Park. Creating an inclusive playground has been on the city’s agenda for ...