April is Oral Cancer Awareness month. It’s important for every dental exam to include an oral cancer screening. Dr Fouad Khan says to consider an enhanced light exam that’s pain free and only takes a couple of minutes.

Gun rights advocates will be rallying in Lansing later this morning. As Legal Analyst Charlie Langton reports — they want guns in more places.

It’s been 20 months since Debi Petranck of Ocala, Florida has seen her dog, Zeus. The five-year-old dog got away from her in the yard one day.  A man found Zeus and then moved to Dearborn, Michigan.  Zeus ran away from him and ended up at the Dearborn Animal Shelter, …

A statewide tornado drill is scheduled for this afternoon and some people may hear emergency sirens blaring. As part of Severe Weather Awareness Week, the Michigan State Police Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division will conduct the drill at 1:30 this afternoon. The tornado drill will be heard on many …

A search is on for a missing Calumet man. 43-year-old Joseph George Kopp was last seen on April 4th around noon at the Westside Group Home in Calumet. He is 5′ 9″ tall and weighs 250lbs with brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a Green Bay …

Monday is opening day of the hunting season.  No, despite the weather it’s not November, but April 18th is the first day of Wild Turkey hunting in Michigan. DNR Wildlife Biologist John DePue says the sport is becoming increasingly more popular in the Upper Peninsula. While the population of many …

Michigan Tech’s Concrete Canoe and Steel Bridge teams both took first place in the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2016 North Central student competition at Michigan State University last weekend. Although the concrete canoe races were cancelled due to bad weather, the team placed first in design paper, first in …

An organization at Michigan Tech that seeks to encourage young women to explore computing fields is getting a boost. Tech’s Women in Computing Sciences has won a $3,000 Student Seed Fund grant from the National Center for Women and Information Technology. The money will help the group increase membership and …

Tornados are rare in the Copper Country, which is why tomorrow’s test of the EAS Tornado Warning is so important. The statewide test is conducted by the National Weather Service in cooperation with the Michigan State Police Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division. At 1:30 Wednesday afternoon, participating local radio …

With today marking the return of state lawmakers in Lansing, one of the big items on the “to do” list is what to do about Detroit’s public schools. And as Jon Hewett reports, one lawmaker says students would be “better off” if DPS simply “went away”.