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As this year’s open-water fishing season gets under way, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources reminds anglers that fisheries personnel will be collecting data (about anglers’ fishing trips) at lakes, rivers and Great Lakes ports. DNR creel clerks will be stationed at boat launches and piers, asking anglers questions as they …

Prop 1 may have failed but road maintenance continues in the Copper Country with two additional projects set to get underway. The first involves the resurfacing of M-26 in Houghton and Ontonagon Counties beginning today. The Michigan Department of Transportation will resurface 20.8 miles of M-26 from US-45 north to …

Critical need for blood throughout Upper Peninsula ESCANABA/ HANCOCK/ MARQUETTE/ SAULT STE MARIE –The U.P. Regional Blood Center, a service of UP Health Systems – Marquette, is in critical need O-negative, A-negative and B-negative blood types blood throughout the Upper Peninsula. The need is highest in Escanaba, Hancock, Marquette, and Sault …

Law enforcement officers from police departments, sheriff’s offices and the Michigan State Police in 26 counties made 532 arrests for drunk driving during the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign March 17-April 7. Of those arrested, 78 were charged under the state’s high blood alcohol content (BAC) law with …

Michigan House Speaker Kevin Cotter on Wednesday began to layout the House Republican groundwork for a plan to fund road repairs in Michigan. Cotter, who gave bullet points but no specifics to reporters a day after a ballot proposal to raise the sales tax failed, is optimistic a long-term solution …

It was unofficially the biggest margin of defeat for a ballot proposition since the writing of the Michigan Constitution in 1963. But Governor Rick Snyder says he won’t let the trouncing of Proposal 1 on Tuesday get him down. Voters Tuesday said no to the sales tax increase to trigger …

The Department of Technology, Management and Budget says it’s going to be a good summer for teenagers looking for work. The department’s summer forecast expects a teen unemployment rate of 17.2 percent over the June to August period. It is the lowest projected teen unemployment rate since 2005 when it …

Testimony opened in a state Senate committee Wednesday on legislation that would end welfare for families with repeatedly truant children. House Republican Al Pscholka is the bill sponsor. He told the Senate Families, Seniors and Human Services Committee the best defense against poverty is an education and, he says, the …

Charitable groups are lauding a Michigan Senate committee following the panel’s approval of a measure codifying existing rules that regulate so-called “millionaire parties.” Those fund raising events, which often feature the popular Texas Hold’em poker games, have been a boon in recent years for charitable organizations. But they’ve complained recently …

Integrys Energy Group is reporting lower earnings in the first quarter of 2015 in the ballpark of $8.5 million over the same period last year. In a statement, officials at Integrys say lower earnings at both the electric transmission investment segment and electric utility segment drove the decrease. The first quarter 2015 …