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Governor Rick Snyder has signed legislation giving Michigan residents with advanced illnesses who have exhausted all other options the opportunity to try experimental treatments under the care of a physician. The measures create the Right to Try Act in Michigan. It allows those suffering from advanced illnesses in the state …

While lawmakers return to Lansing for a session day on Wednesday, not much is expected. But proponents of medical marijuana are hopeful to push their legislation during the lame duck period after the election and before the end of the year. Their proposal would allow for the return of regulated marijuana …

The Ishpeming man who was involved in a fatal accident with two Copper Country residents has admitted to reckless driving. 19-year old Raymond Anderson pleaded guilty yesterday in a Marquette County District courtroom to two counts of moving violation causing death. The misdemeanor is punishable by up to 1 year …

One person drowned when a boat capsized Wednesday on a Marquette County lake. The Marquette County Sheriff’s Office says three employees of the Huron Mountain Club in Powell Township were working on Mountain Lake in a 16 foot flat bottom jon boat winterizing campsites around the lake when the incident …

State health officials Thursday began an annual campaign of encouraging Michigan residents to get flu vaccinations and have confirmed three cases of influenza in adults already in the 2014-2015 season. One case was identified by a state laboratory as H-1-N-1, one is H-3-N-2 and one is an Influenza-B virus. Officials …

By this time of the year, Yoopers are already anticipating the first signs of winter but if you think we’ll have one like last year’s, thinkg again. According to federal weather forecasters, a new report says that chances of an extremely hard winter like the one Michigan experienced last winter …

Governor Rick Snyder has signed into law a large package of bills that, among other things, makes human trafficking punishable by imprisonment for life and permanently creates the state Human Trafficking Commission within the Attorney General’s Office. Snyder says it’s unacceptable that a dangerous and appalling practice like human trafficking …

The Michigan Education Association says nearly 80 percent of teachers in the state have experienced funding cuts at their schools in the past four years. The president of the state’s teachers union says K-12 funding cuts aren’t campaign rhetoric ahead of the election next month. Democrats and the MEA say …

The Hancock City Council will have a slightly different look the next time they meet. Last night was the final meeting for councilors John Haeussler and Barry Givens. Both have chosen to not to put their names on the ballot for the upcoming election. At the end of the meeting, …

Hancock parks could be on their way to getting help for improvements and renovations. Last night, the Hancock City Council approved to establish the Parks and Recreation Expansion Fund through the Keweenaw Community Foundation. The council allocated $10,000 from the budget to the endowment which will be used to preserve …