Lansing, MI – Nearly three years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, almost two dozen of the hardest-hit Michigan communities are benefiting from $14,178,900 in Michigan Spark Grants funding – a big boost toward creating, renovating or redeveloping public recreation opportunities for residents and visitors. “Every Michigander in every […]

LANSING – Two engineers warned the Michigan Public Service Commission that Enbridge’s plans to dig a pipeline tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac could lead to an explosion and the release of oil that could devastate the freshwater, wildlife, and shorelines of Great Lakes. The testimony, submitted on behalf of […]

On Friday and Saturday, Michigan Department of Natural Resources conservation officers ran patrols over hundreds of miles of snowmobile trails, making contacts with nearly 800 sledders over the 54th-annual running of the International 500 snowmobile race in Sault Ste. Marie. For many years, conservation officers have taken advantage of the […]

GAYLORD, Mich. – The Michigan Department of Transportation’s (MDOT) Mackinaw City Welcome Center reopened today, nearly a week ahead of schedule, after an extensive remodeling project that upgraded the facility’s restrooms and windows. The $409,000 project included replacement of all windows with energy-efficient units, all restroom floor and wall tiles, […]

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. and Ontario – The Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge will begin to phase out its Prox toll cards starting March 31. While Prox cards for personal commuter accounts will be accepted for toll payments through the end of the year, customers will have to use the card […]

ST. IGNACE, Mich. ­- The Mackinac Bridge Authority (MBA) has a new model of the bridge on display in its St. Ignace office, a gift from the Vocational Village students at the Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia. A rotating group of students at the first-of-its-kind skilled trades training […]

CHIPPEWA COUNTY, MI – From the Office of the Chippewa County Prosecutor, Rob Stratton, he has announced that following a five-day jury trial, Sean James McInnis was found guilty on Friday January 27,2023 of six felony counts including Criminal Sexual Assault in the 1st Degree, three separatecounts of Child Abuse […]

Delta County, MI – At approximately 3:55pm on Friday, January 27, troopers from the Michigan State Police, Gladstone Post, were dispatched to a multi-vehicle traffic crash on US-2 near the Fishdam River. This location is in Garden Township of Delta County. Upon arrival, troopers encountered several vehicles involved in the […]

Chippewa County, MI – On 1/27/2023 at 1004 am Chippewa County Central Dispatch received a call that a man, who had been ice fishing, was stuck on an ice flow in the St Mary’s River. The man was fishing approximately 1 to 1.5 mile out from of the Rocky Point […]

SAULT STE. MARIE – A charity hockey game will be played on Saturday, February 18, 2023, at the Pullar Arena, 435 E Portage Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. The puck will be dropped at 6:30 p.m.  Employees and friends of MyMichigan Medical Center Sault will be playing against employees of […]