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There’s a sad ending to the story we reported yesterday about a missing 5-year-old boy in central Michigan. The body of Beau Brennan Belson was found in a pond on his grandparents’ property near Six Lakes in Montcalm County. He and other family members had been playing in the area …

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says a comment by her communications director that her office was suspending its investigation into the Larry Nassar sexual misconduct scandal at Michigan State University was not accurate. In a statement released yesterday morning, Nessel said she remains “deeply committed to finding the truth about …

State crews are taking another run at opening up Grand Traverse Harbor, after storms this fall washed more stamp sands into it. Credit: Neil Harri. Dredging operations at the Grand Traverse Harbor in Houghton County are shown. Stamp sands, the gray-black beach sands, are being removed from the beach and …

Search crews are frantically combing through a rural area in the central Lower Peninsula, looking for a missing 5-year-old child. Beau Brennan Belson was last seen playing with other family members yesterday afternoon, outside a home in Six Lakes, about 45 miles northwest of Grand Rapids in northern Montcalm County. …

Could Michigan’s next state park be located in downtown Flint? Governor Gretchen Whitmer floated the idea at a recent appearance in the Vehicle City. The park could be built on the bank of the Flint River, on property once occupied by the historic Chevrolet Plant Number Four. That was the …

Christmas Eve is bittersweet in the Copper Country. On one hand, we look forward to the holiday tomorrow. On the other hand, we remember what happened 106 years ago today. At the height of the 1913 Copper Strike, a Christmas party was held for the children of striking miners on …

As we head into the Christmas travel season, gasoline prices are marginally higher in our region than they were a week ago. AAA Michigan’s survey puts the coat of a gallon of unleaded regular in the Marquette metro area at $2.48 per gallon. That’s a penny higher than last week, …

An anti-abortion group says it has collected enough signatures to create an initiative that would outlaw a specific type of abortion in Michigan. The Michigan Values Life Committee is targeting the dilation and evacuation procedure that was used in seven percent of abortions in our state last year, in the …

Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly will again serve free Christmas dinners for seniors who would otherwise be alone on the holiday. Dinners will be served tomorrow at 2:00 at the Church of the Resurrection in Hancock, Sacred Heart Church in Calumet, St. Ignatius Church in Houghton, the Doelle …

The Upper Peninsula’s first recreational marijuana outlet made its first sales yesterday. The Fire Station in Negaunee was an existing medical marijuana supplier. According to its Facebook site, the company received its recreational license last Tuesday. A small supply of marijuana-based vape cartridges went on sale yesterday, in what the …