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When the August primary comes around, voters in Michigan’s 1st Congressional District will have several candidates to choose from. Lieutenant General Jack Bergman would like to be one of them. The 69-year-old Watersmeet resident is now retired from the United States Marine Corps, but that doesn’t mean he feels his …

The start of the major reconstruction of Quincy Street in Hancock is approaching. The Michigan Department of Transportation Communications Representative Dan Weingarten says the Quincy Street Streetscape Project will have a big impact on local motorists. The project will focus mainly on US-41 through downtown Hancock, including upgrades to the water …

State Representative Scott Dianda is calling on Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette to investigate the Senate’s rental of their new offices in the Capitol View office building. The Senate sold the Billie S. Farnum Building that had been home to Senators’ offices and that the Senate owned. Dianda says the …

Michigan’s January jobless rate was below 5 percent first time in 15 years. State labor officials say Michigan’s unemployment rate in January was 4.9 percent. That’s also 1.1 percent below the jobless rate of January, 2015. The state’s workforce improved by 27,000 in January and total employment rose by 33,000. The number …

Groups that need to collect signatures for legislative or ballot initiatives could have a tougher row to hoe under legislation that passed the Michigan Senate Thursday. The measure cements a cap of 180 days to collect the necessary signatures and takes out the ability to challenge signatures collected outside of …

House Speaker Kevin Cotter says he won’t rush a vote on a plan to help get Detroit Public Schools out of debt despite vows from the district’s transition manager that schools will go dark as soon as April 8th if DPS doesn’t get more money. Cotter says that’s a long …

On the same day a congressional panel will hold its second hearing into the Flint water crisis, a state legislative panel will hold its first hearing. State Senator Jim Stamas, R-Midland, is chairman of the panel, which is made up of lawmakers from both the Michigan House and Michigan Senate. …

Lawmakers on a pair of Michigan House committees looking in to a scathing audit of a veteran’s home in Grand Rapids want Michigan’s attorney general to investigate the facility. An oversight committee and veteran’s affairs committee held their second joint hearing on the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans Thursday. More …

March 10, 2016 — Intermittent nighttime closures of the Portage Lake Lift Bridge have been scheduled for March 15-18 as part of ongoing maintenance work. The closures will likely result in delays for motorists. The contractor for the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) will be testing new bridge components. These tests …

On a snow-swept back road in Delta County, a Michigan Department of Natural Resources wildlife biologist drives his vehicle slowly. Watching out his windows, he scans each set of animal tracks he sees pushed into the fresh snow. Among the footprints left by bobcats, white-tailed deer, snowshoe hare and other …