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Lawmakers on a Michigan House committee continue to weigh a package of bills that would revamp the state’s energy policy, which includes eliminating energy choice. The big utilities lined up to support the bill during an hours long hearing Monday. Consumer’s Energy VP of Government Affairs David Mengebier told the …

Police body cameras would be regulated under a bill being considered Tuesday by a House committee in Lansing. The Michigan House Judiciary Committee will take up a measure that, among other things, provides exemptions from the Freedom Of Information Act in certain situations. The proposal says body camera records could …

An Ontonagon man is facing multiple charges after he crashed into a gate at a cemetery. The Ontonagon Sheriff’s office says they received a report of a vehicle crashing into the gate at the Evergreen Cemetery on M8 near Ontonagon. A Sheriff’s Deputy located the vehicle minutes later and arrested …

One man is dead after a two vehicle crash in Chocolay Township Sunday.   Michigan State Police Troopers from the Negaunee Post were called to US-41 South and Hillcrest Trail in Chocolay Township just before 10:00 p.m.   Troopers say that 25-year-old Duncan Ryan-Ross of Skandia was driving a 2005 …

31-year-old Benjamin Riutta is charged with felony hit and run. Police say the Atlantic Mine resident swerved over the center line and onto the shoulder of Obenhoff Road in Adams Township in March. That’s where he allegedly hit a 36-year old woman from Atlantic Mine walking alongside the road and …

A town hall meeting will be held this evening to discuss a possible wind farm in South Range. The company Farm Wind wants to build six to ten 500-foot wind turbines in the area. A local ordinance prohibits the structures from being any closer than 3,000 feet from adjacent property …

According to Kraft Foods, someplace else in Hockeyville USA. At least for this year as neither Houghton or Calumet where selected for the semi-finals in the national contest that crossed over into the U.S. after several successful years in Canada. The Upper Peninsula will be represented in the contest, however, …

A deer crashed through a window into an office at a Midland hospital Saturday surprising a worker who was putting in a few hours. Diana Brookens says she was working by herself in her office at MidMichigan Health when a deer crashed through a window and over one section of …

As the auto industry moves away from more fuel efficient vehicles and away from traditional fossil fuels, one replacement power source may be the use of natural gas. Kyle Isakower, American Petroleum Institute Vice-President for Regulatory and Economic Policy, says currently natural gas is being used in a number of …

Arguments regarding Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage are just over two weeks away. A group of cases before the US Supreme Court come from the Cincinnati-based 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which has been the only federal appellate court to uphold state bans on same-sex marriage, since the federal anti-gay marriage …