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Mike Pflaum, a 35-year veteran of the National Park Service (NPS), has been selected as the new Superintendent of Badlands National Park. Pflaum has served as the Superintendent of Keweenaw National Historical Park in Calumet, Michigan since January, 2011, with an intervening assignment at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Pflaum begins …

Young musicians will be rocking it out tonight and tomorrow and the climax of PJ Olsson’s Rock Camp arrives. Saturday night’s Really Big Show looks to definitely be a sell out so to give as many people as a possible a chance to see the show, and to give the …

The movie ‘Superior” is a tale about two teenagers who decide to have one last adventure, bicycling around Lake Superior in the summer of ’69. It’s based on a true story, written and directed by Edd Benda, who came out last summer with his crew from Beyond the Porch Productions …

The state is hoping you can help keep an insect that burrows into maple trees and destroys them out of Michigan. Julie Crick, an educator at Michigan State University Extension, says the Asian long-horned beetle – which is black with white spots and has a blue antenna – leaves behind …

The Michigan Supreme Court’s decision Wednesday to strike down some mandatory sentencing guidelines will mean a lot of work for trial court judges now and plenty of work this fall for a House committee. State Representative Kurt Heise, chair of the House Criminal Justice Committee, says they’ll first spend some …

A new set of regulations on energy generation proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency will likely be challenged in court but should survive the challenge. That’s the opinion of a former Michigan lawmaker who now works for an energy related advocacy group. Former state representative Dan Scripps, now the president …

The Michigan Board of State Canvassers has given the green light to ballot language for three initiatives, one to allow voting by mail, another to mandate earned paid sick time, and one to hike the state’s corporate income tax to help fund the roads. Tom Lutz of Citizens for Fair …

There’s a new wrinkle for parents who aren’t getting their kids vaccinated and need a waiver from the state to send them to school or daycare. Beginning this school year parents will have to go to their county public health department to sign the waiver and talk with someone about …

A downstate man is dead after apparently drowning in Lake Superior at McLain State Park. The incident happened Wednesday just before 1:00pm. The Houghton County Sheriff’s Office says 49-year-old Andrew Kneeshaw of Grand Blanc was swimming in the lake when he became stranded and started yelling for help. A nearby …

Congressman Dan Benishek is supporting the “Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2015, a bill that would require Congress to vote on and the President to sign off on any new major federal regulations. Benishek stated the REINS Act will seek to improve the American regulatory …