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The Michigan Department of Transportation and the City of Hancock will host a public information meeting for this summer’s project to reconstruct US-41 in downtown Hancock. The meeting will be held at the First United Methodist Church in Hancock Tuesday, April 5th at 6pm. MDOT is reconstructing Reservation and Quincy …

Secretary of State Ruth Johnson reminds residents that the Mohawk office will be open two days a week instead of one, beginning April 1. The office at 3616 U.S. Highway 41 will have business hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays through the end of October, when it will return to one-day-a-week …

The Houghton City Council approved a $20,000 donation to the Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement team at their most recent meeting. City Manager, Eric Waara, says that the city has made a cash contribution in past years and intended on continuing that trend. He added that after looking with the Houghton …

There may be easier ways to shoot a basket, but few things look as cool as a trebuchet designed to shoot a basketball. That was just one of the events students from six Western Upper Peninsula high schools competed in during the 25th annual Engineering Olympics held at Michigan Tech. …

Inmates at an Upper Peninsula prison peacefully protested the quality of the food provided by a state contractor. Department of Corrections spokesman Chris Gautz says nearly 1,300 prisoners at Kinross Correctional Facility chose not to get meals Monday, a day after inmates left the prison yard 20 minutes early in …

While they aren’t on the same page, on paper, subcommittees in the Michigan House and Michigan Senate are both on board with eliminating the state’s M-STEP standardized test. State Senator Goeff Hansen says it took too long to administer the test last year and by the time testing results were …

Hundreds of nurses rallied on the Capitol lawn Wednesday calling on state lawmakers to pass nurse staffing reforms. The group of demonstrators want a legislative hearing on the Safe Patient Care Act, which they say addresses dangerous understaffing at hospitals in the state. President of the Michigan Nurses Association, John …

The Michigan Senate has cleared legislation that could require kids who aren’t reading at grade level to repeat the third grade. The measure requires students to hit certain reading benchmarks before advancing to the fourth grade. State Senator Phil Pavlov says the Senate made changes to the bill, which passed …

School districts across the state could still have to foot the bill to get Detroit Public Schools out of debt, under the package of bills that passed the Michigan Senate Tuesday. The measures provide an initial influx of money, but after that money to pay down the district’s debt will …

A new task force report on Flint’s lead contaminated water says government failure, intransigence, unpreparedness, delay, inaction and environmental injustice led to the city’s water crisis. And the report recommends the state’s emergency manager law be looked at because the law removed necessary checks and balances that contributed to the …