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Michigan Tech is getting some high grades in a new listing of top public universities. The website Niche says Tech gets an overall grade of A- based on key statistics and student surveys. The university’s administration aced the report with an A and the school also received high marks for …

Every year, the business community in the Keweenaw honors those who make a difference. Reservations are being taken for the 4th Annual Keweenaw Community Spark Plug Awards Dinner, being held at the Siskiwit Reception Hall & Conference Center in Calumet on Thursday, February 11th. Keweenaw Chamber of Commerce President Brian …

The Michigan Interscholastic Forensics Association State Theater Competition will take place in just a few weeks. Thirteen schools will qualify for the competition in Grand Rapids, but Calumet High School Drama Club is the only Upper Peninsula school competing. Even though they are automatically qualified to attend the “State” competition, …

The FBI is now investigating what led to Flint’s water crisis. The agency is working with federal prosecutors who are looking in to the high lead levels in Flint’s water. The Environmental Protection Agency’s investigation arm and office of inspector general and the postal service’s inspection division is working with …

The speed limit would go up on interstates and highways and down on gravel roads under legislation that passed a House committee Tuesday. State Representative Brad Jacobsen, R-Oxford, is sponsoring the bills and says the speed limit on rural stretches of interstate would go up to 75 miles an hour …

Craft brewers and beer distributors in the state would be allowed to use Facebook and Twitter to promote their beer under legislation awaiting a hearing Wednesday in a Michigan Senate committee. Believe it or not, it’s illegal for a brewer to talk up an event or name a bar that …

Airport police would have the ability to arrest someone under legislation approved by a Michigan House committee. State Representative Kurt Heise, R-Plymouth Township, is sponsoring the bill and says it will give airport police more leeway to go after people who shine laser pointers at planes or fly drones near …

A new poll finds most Michigan residents don’t want fish farms in the Great Lakes. Legislation introduced in Lansing would allow for the expansion of net-pen aquaculture into the Great Lakes waters. But a survey by Lansing-based EPIC-MRA found 7 out of 10 Michiganders oppose the move. State Senator Rick …

The first congressional inquiry into the Flint water crisis begins this morning on Capitol Hill. The U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold hearing beginning at 9:00 a.m. The new head of the state’s Department of Environmental Quality and a deputy assistant administrator within the Environmental Protection Agency’s …

Though most of the nation is focused on Iowa, there is a contest closer to home that is expected to grab a lot of attention later this year. Michigan Democratic Party Chair Brandon Dillon says the race for the 1st Congressional District is going to be a hard fought one. …