By CHRISTIE MASTRIC, ALEXANDRIA BOURNONVILLE AND DREYMA BERONJA Journal Staff Writers MARQUETTE — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer made stops in Marquette and Negaunee on Wednesday as part of her Make it in Michigan tour in the Upper Peninsula. Whitmer started her day in Negaunee ...
DETROIT (AP) — About 146,000 members of the United Auto Workers union will vote next week on authorizing their leaders to call strikes against the Detroit automakers. Union President Shawn Fain said in a statement Tuesday that talks that started in mid-July are moving slowly and have yet to get to wages and other economic issues. The union’s contracts with General Motors, Ford and Stellantis expire in about a month, at 11:59 p.m. Sept. 14. The union did not name a target company for a strike in its statement. Fain is scheduled to hold a Facebook Live meeting with workers later ...
BELLEVILLE — The pilot of a Cold War-era jet noticed it was losing power and decided to eject himself and a crew member before the Soviet fighter plane crashed during a weekend air show in suburban Detroit, an official said Monday. The pilot, who also owns the plane, had serious injuries but nothing life-threatening, while a second person aboard the MiG-23 had mild injuries after they parachuted to the ground, said John Brannen, senior air safety investigator at the National Transportation Safety Board. “It’s very fortunate, of course, that nobody on the ground was injured. ... ...
By Journal Staff MARQUETTE — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan State Housing Development Authority on Thursday announced more than $13 million in federal low-income housing tax credits have been awarded to support the development or rehabilitation of 500 future homes across 10 affordable housing projects from Marquette to Detroit. The total investment from these projects is over $173 million and will create over 30 permanent jobs and over 800 temporary jobs, the governor’s office said in a news release. Woda Cooper Development Inc., and the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community ...
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press LANSING — A white police officer handcuffed a Black child outside his Michigan home in an “unfortunate case of ‘wrong place, wrong time,’” the Lansing Police Department said Friday. The department posted the ...
DETROIT (AP) — New versions of the Mustang muscle car will begin shipping next week and more than two thirds of the orders include the big, 5-liter V-8 engine, Ford said Friday. Demand for roaring engines remains strong in an era when Detroit automakers are starting to phase out the rumbling gas burners and transition to electric vehicles in order to meet strict government emissions and fuel economy requirements. There are about 13,000 U.S. orders for the 2024 Mustangs, Ford says, which also can be equipped with a four-cylinder turbocharged engine. Of those orders, 67% have the ...
