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Who has the worst winter weather in the country? A website has ranked all 50 states. Erin Vee looks at where we fall.

The new year brings a jobs outlook that we haven’t seen in a decade. CareerBuilder’s annual job forecast shows 40-percent of businesses planning to hire full-time workers over the next year. The survey also shows 30-percent expect to hire part-time, permanent workers while half plan to hire contract or temporary …

January is National Radon Action Month and the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department is offering free radon test kits to encourage home owners to protect their families from exposure to radon gas. Radon in indoor air is estimated to cause about 21,000 lung cancer deaths each year in the United …

The Copper Country Humane Society accepts animals to be put up for adoption, usually with no questions asked or cost to the person dropping the animal off. Which makes what happened last week at the shelter a senseless tragedy. When the shelter opened in the afternoon, a volunteer found kittens …

The case against an Atlantic Mine man who was the subject of a lockdown at an elementary school is headed to Circuit Court. 30-year-old Niles Rothenberger appeared in 97th District Court in Houghton Wednesday for a preliminary exam. He is charged with Possession of Marijuana on school property, a high …

Only one out of three former Finlandia students suspected in the theft of firearms from a Hancock store physically appeared in court Wednesday. 19-year-old Jake Hugall waived his preliminary exam and his case was bound over to circuit court. Police believe he may have been the lookout during a break-in …

The eighth annual Sisu Ski Festival is being held this weekend in Ironwood with some cross country ski races on Saturday. But, race director Jackie Powers says there’s more. And, Powers says there’s a party after Saturday’s races with a pasties, a Finnish stew, and entertainment.

A group of Lansing firefighters helped deliver a set of twins Monday evening in a bathroom. When emergency crews arrived one baby had already been delivered, but the second one was on the way. Steve Mazurek, Captain of the Lansing Fire Department, says ambulance crews, two engine companies and a …

The total cost of a disturbance at a prison in the U.P. is nearly $900-thousand dollars. It happened in September, when about 100 emergency response team members were sent to Kinross Correctional Facility following a protest by a few hundred prisoners. Chris Gautz with the Michigan Department of Corrections: About …

On the first day of her campaign for governor, Democrat Gretchen Whitmer is strongly criticizing Republican Bill Schuette for his role in the Flint water crisis. Whitmer says Schuette is using the Flint water crisis for his own political gain. With 14 years in the legislature, Whitmer says she is not …