LANSING — Michigan’s minimum wage jumped by $1.25 an hour on Thursday under a new state law that sped up planned base rate increases but scaled back a bigger bump for tipped workers. The minimum wage climbed from $12.48 to $13.73 an hour on Jan. 1. The sub-minimum wage for tipped ...
MARQUETTE – Local Celtic trio, The Knockabouts, is set to perform at the Marquette Maritime Museum's Jan. 6 Maritime History on Tap event. Barb Rhyneer (fiddle, vocals), Tim DeMarte (Bodhran, vocals) and Daniel Truckey (guitar, bouzouki, vocals) will perform a set of tunes rooted in the ...
The U.S. Postal Service has adopted a new rule that could create doubt about whether some ballots mailed by voters by Election Day will receive postmarks in time to be counted. A USPS rule that took effect on Dec. 24 says mail might not receive a postmark on the same day the agency takes ...
“It’s not an end, it’s not a beginning, just a continuum of wonder and surprises birds provide each year.” – Anonymous With the start of 2026 there is a long gaze back at the past year, and a hopeful look ahead at the one to come. 2025 featured another year of seesaw temperatures ...
Today is Friday, Jan. 2, the second day of 2026. There are 363 days left in the year. Today in history: On Jan. 2, 2016, a heavily armed group led by brothers Ammon and Ryan Bundy seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, beginning a 41-day standoff to protest the imprisonment ...
