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Marquette – Upper Peninsula Power Company (UPPCO) today joined other utilities from across the United States to raise awareness about scams targeting utility customers as part of the inaugural Utilities United Against Scams Day.  The event is being supported by a week-long advocacy and awareness campaign focused on exposing the …

With an anticipated 500,000 firearm deer hunters afield in search of white-tailed deer earlier this week, early reports indicate varied success across Michigan. Warm weather and fog in some areas seem to have had an effect on deer movement. Michigan Department of Natural Resources wildlife biologists across the four wildlife …

Another award for the Chevrolet Bolt Electric car, and the vehicle hasn’t even gone on sale yet. Here’s AutoBeat Reporter Jeff Gilbert.  

In a landmark report, the Surgeon General says 78 people die each day from opioid overdose. Dr. Vivek Murthy says over 20-million people have a substance use disorder, but only ten-percent receive treatment. The silver lining is there are currently 28-million Americans living happily in recovery.

Homeless Awareness Week is ongoing across Michigan.  It’s meant to recognize the over 69,000 people who experienced homelessness in the state in 2015. When compared to 2014, Eric Hufnagel , the Executive Director for the Michigan Coalition Against Homelessness, says the state has experienced a six-percent decrease in overall homelessness.

Michigan State University entomologist Howard Russell says usually outdoor mosquitoes are gone by the end of October. But this year it has not yet been cold enough to put an end to them for the year. Russell says these mosquitoes hatched during the very rainy early fall and likely don’t …

Over the last few months, for the most part, much of Michigan has experienced above normal temperatures. But Justin Titus,, a Meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Marquette, says that is going to change starting today. Titus says coastal wave heights could reach 20-feet or higher, which could cause …

A special state commission, formed in the wake of the Flint water crisis is recommending a requirement that all young children from age one-to-two be tested for lead poisoning. Because of that, Lansing Bureau Chief Tim Skubick says the state would have wait for parents to bring their kids in …

A reminder from the Michigan Treasury Department — as holiday shopping gets underway. Here’s Lansing Bureau Chief Tim Skubick .

Even though we know that when pregnant women smoke it can cause low birth weight and other complications, there was an 18-percent increase in the number of expectant moms who smoked in Michigan from 2008 to 2014. That’s a finding of the Michigan League for Public Policy’s Right Start annual …