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Lt. Gov. Brian Calley and Michigan Supreme Court Justice Bernstein are hosting a statewide business workshop today in Flint. The aim is to provide employers with the tools to strengthen Michigan’s workforce by hiring people with disabilities. Calley and Bernstein launched the MI Hidden Talent tour in 2015 to raise …

Lawmakers need to fix harmful policies that are failing our kids. That’s the message from the Kids Count in Michigan Data Book 2016, which has just been released. The report shows that child poverty has gone up in 80 of the 83 counties in Michigan since 2006. And the report …

Their drinking water is tainted with naturally occurring radium–now the city of Waukeshaw, Wisconsin says tapping into Lake Michigan is their best alternative. However, they are getting opposition from U.S. and Canadian mayors within the Great Lakes region who will meet Tuesday for a final vote on the city’s $207 million …

The search is back on for escaped Houghton County Jail inmate John Saatio. According to The Tico Times News, the 34-year-old Saatio escaped from an Costa Rican immigration detention center Sunday night by crawling through a ventilation duct during dinner. Saatio has been wanted out of Houghton since last summer …

Lobster is always the star of the Houghton Rotary Seafoodfest. The two-day fundraiser featured a wide variety of seafood and other delicious menu choices, plus games and live entertainment. Seafoodfest Chair Eli Karttunen said things were looking good right at the start. Not only were guests treated to a great …

Standing as a symbol of the area’s Finnish culture for the third summer in a row, a Midsummer pole on Finlandia University’s Quincy Green will be dedicated on June 25. Live music by the Thimbleberry Trio begins at about 11 a.m. at Quincy Green, near the Finnish American Heritage Center. …

Twenty-two high school students from 13 Detroit schools will spend June 21-25 at Michigan Technological University, all expenses paid, exploring careers in natural resources, environmental science and engineering.  They won the opportunity by writing an essay and submitting two letters of recommendation. They will get to try their hand at …

Northern Michigan University’s commitment to expand its Invent@NMU program throughout Michigan will be published in a White House fact sheet released as part of the National Week of Making. Invent@NMU Founding Director David Ollila also has been invited by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to …

Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, located in Ontonagon and Gogebic counties, now has an 18-hole disc golf course. Michigan Department of Natural Resources staff at the park said the “golf” course has been set up in the downhill ski area at the park. There is no additional fee to play …

It took a while, but summer arrived just in time for the annual Bridgefest weekend in Houghton and Hancock. With the parade keeping to one side of the bridge this year, crowds packed Shelden Avenue in Houghton to watch it go by. Some decided to get a different view of …