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The Michigan House and Michigan Senate will each pick up where it’s left off on crafting a new energy policy for the state when lawmakers return after the first of the year. In 2015 each chamber held lengthy committee hearings spread out of from the spring into the fall. The …

A bill to extend Michigan’s property tax exemption for disabled veterans to their spouses cleared the Senate last week. Currently disabled vets don’t have to pay property tax on their homes. This bill would extend that exemption to the spouse of a deceased veteran as long as they stay in …

The New Year will get off to a good start for current Michigan Walmart employees. MLive reports that the mega store chain will be raising the wages for workers in the state. Walmart employs nearly 29,000 people in Michigan. It’s part of a multi-phase wage increase plan rolled out earlier …

If you can’t make it to Lansing for a tour of the State Capitol Building, virtual tours are now available on the website www.capitol.michigan.gov. Michigan Capitol Commission member John Truscott says the online tour is the first for any state Capitol created using Google’s Streetview technology. It is in the …

Michigan lawmakers spent a lot of time in 2015 coming up with a way to improve spending on roads and bridges in Michigan. But cities around the state also want to remind lawmakers that the state’s infrastructure is not just roads and bridges. It’s also water and waste and many …

There’s more on the governor’s to-do list for 2016 than reforming the state’s energy policy and passing a plan to get Detroit Public Schools out of debt. Those two issues are the most high profile ones but there are other things on Governor Rick Snyder’s plate, like criminal justice reforms. …

It took several committee hearings and sit-downs with the state police and state department of transportation, but it appears Michigan’s speed limit is poised to increase in 2016 under legislation before a House committee. State Representative Peter Pettalia, chairman of a House transportation committee, says under the agreement the speed …

Some families ask for a dog for Christmas, one family is celebrating that theirs has come home. In what is being hailed as a Christmas miracle, an Ohio family was recently reunited with their pooch who had been missing for more than three years. A Romulus, MI woman found a …

A paper mill in the Upper Peninsula recently received one of Michigan’s most prestigious safety awards. Verso Paper Corporation’s Quinnesec Mill was awarded the Voluntary Protection Program Star Award from the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Officials say the award is the state’s highest recognition for workplace safety and …

Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly will again serve free Christmas dinners for seniors who would otherwise be alone on the holiday. Dinners will be served at 2:00 on Friday at several locations throughout the Copper Country. Those locations include: The Church of the Resurrection in Hancock Sacred Heart …