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The Michigan Senate could vote next week to break up a pair of bills that would change the way you vote on Election Day and the days leading up to it. One of the bills would do away with straight-ticket voting while another bill would allow people to vote absentee …

A fatal car crash involving an Ingham County Sheriff’s deputy late last year, and how long it took to find the driver of the SUV Grant Whitaker was chasing, is the inspiration behind a bill that passed the Michigan House Thursday. State Representative Tom Cochran, D-Mason, says it took five …

When Waste Management began charging $4 per vehicle to drop off recyclables at their center in Houghton, some say the amount of items brought to the center dropped by as much as 50 percent. So what are Houghton residents supposed to do? A team from Michigan Tech says, “Do what Hancock …

It all starts with coding. Before the birds can get angry and before the first Minecraft brick can be laid, someone needed to write the instructions on how to do it in a way a computer would understand. During Computer Science Education Week, tens of thousands of Hour of Code …

The case against a pair of drug suspects in Houghton County is moving forward. Police say 35-year-old Corrie Ruth of Flint and 43-year old Damon Belcher of Detroit were found with over $10,000 in heroin and cocaine along with approximately $2000 in cash. They were arrested by UPSET detectives last …

Police in the western U.P. have located and arrested a man they say pointed a firearm at another person. On December 2nd, police received a call at 1:00 p.m. from a caller who said another driver was driving recklessly and he had pointed a weapon at them. The caller was …

A U.S. Senate committee has approved a measure that supporters say will authorize current oil pipeline regulations and improve safety and oversight. U.S. Senate Democrat Gary Peters of Michigan, the sponsor, says the measure improves oil spill response plans to address ice cover, and requires critical reviews of pipeline age …

A Michigan House committee has cleared a series of Senate bills that would offer tax breaks to a Nevada-based company to open a data center in West Michigan. The measures would also extend the same incentives to data centers already in the state. However a sought after Personal Property Tax …

Michigan’s prison inmates would have more time to petition the courts for DNA testing in their cases, under a bill headed to the governor’s desk for his signature. The measure would repeal the sunset date on post-conviction testing of DNA, which is currently set to expire at the beginning of …

The Michigan legislature is moving quickly to approve a bill extending a fee on businesses who offer healthcare to their employees. The money collected from the Health Insurance Claims Assessment helps pay for Medicaid. Rich Studley, CEO of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, opposes the measure. He calls it a …