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Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is scheduled to go under the knife. The 61-year-old Schuette will have a left hip replacement due to his lifelong affection for skiing, running and basketball. Surgery is scheduled for March 16 at MidMichigan Health’s medical center in Midland. Doctors say the surgery normally has …

Michigan Democrats are calling for increasing the state’s renewable energy standard as Republicans push to eliminate the standard altogether. Democrats, Representative Bill LaVoy of Monroe and Senator Hoon-Yung Hopgood of Taylor, who each sit on their respective chambers’ energy committees, have proposed raising the renewable standard from 10 percent by …

Secretary of State Ruth Johnson is reminding boat owners of the ease and convenience of renewing their watercraft registration online as her office begins sending out more than 252,000 watercraft renewal notices. ExpressSOS.com offers two methods for renewal. Express Renewal requires only the boat’s registration number to renew. Online Renewal …

The Department of Natural Resources says extreme cold conditions on Michigan’s waters are causing some trouble for Michigan’s waterfowl. The exceptionally cold winter weather of the past few weeks has caused the rivers and waters of the Great Lakes to freeze further into the center, similar to conditions experienced last …

Ladies and Gentlemen:  Start your noise-reduced, environmentally friendly, enhanced trail maneuvering snowmobile engines! The SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge has arrived. The weeklong competition pits university crews from across the U.S. and Canada, with one team even making the trek from Finland this year. The event is held at the Keweenaw …

Michigan Tech’s Women In Engineering program is the recipient of a $10,000 donation from Ford Motor Company. Tech Today reports, the check was presented by Tech alumna Cynthia Hodges of Ford, who herself participated in the program in 1980 and is currently on the Girls in STEM committee at Ford.  …

Congressman Dan Benishek is calling for further comment before Northern-long eared bats can be placed on the endangered species list. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is currently considering a proposal to protect the bats. In a letter signed by twenty other legislators, Benishek asks for stakeholders impacted by …

New business students at Michigan Tech will benefit from $1.1 million in scholarship funding from a family with a long tradition of Husky pride. Tech Today says MTU alumnus Dale Elliot and his family are pledging the money to help deserving business students, particularly first generation college students, attend Michigan …

Gas prices increased from last week, AAA Michigan reports. Michigan’s current statewide average is about $2.42 per gallon, about 11 cents more than last week’s average and about $1.27 less than this same time last year. This is the fifth week in a row that the statewide average weekly gas …

Ice coverage continues to grow over the Great Lakes and now stands at 88.3% as of Sunday. The National Weather Service in Grand Rapids says the coverage is ahead of last year by about 7% and the peak is expected in the next few weeks. The all-time record for ice coverage …