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Saturday, February 8, 2025
BAY MILLS — Bay Mills Community College is continuing to expand educational opportunities for tribal communities. BMCC has entered into an articulation agreement with Fond du Lac Tribal Community College (FDLTCC) in Cloquet, Minn. The agreement will allow Fond du Lac students to utilize their credits towards a bachelor’s degree […]
BRIMLEY, Mich. – Beginning Monday, Sept. 26, the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) will be performing maintenance work on the M-221/6 Mile Road bridge over the Waiska River in Brimley, Chippewa County, which will require a posted detour. The work had been planned for this week but was delayed due to material supply issues. Beginning […]
Sunday night, Pickford Fire and EMS Chief Jim Miller sent out a post on Facebook addressed to the citizens of the community of Pickford. It didn’t resonate good tones. “After 60 years of providing Ambulance service to Pickford and the surrounding Townships, Pickford Ambulance is sadly embarking on our last […]
Grand Rapids — Calling public safety a “top issue” in Michigan, Republican candidate for governor Tudor Dixon detailed a $1 billion proposal Tuesday to recruit, retain and train police officers and other emergency personnel. Dixon, a political commentator and businesswoman from Norton Shores, laid out the plan during an appearance in […]
BRIMLEY, Mich. – Beginning Monday, the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) will be performing maintenance work on the M-221/6 Mile Road bridge over the Waiska River in Brimley, Chippewa County, which will require a posted detour. Starting Monday, Sept. 19, eastbound 6 Mile Road traffic will be detoured on M-221 to M-28 to Piche […]
Troopers with the Michigan State Police 8th District Hometown Security Team began an investigation regarding child sexual predators in the Marquette area. During the investigation, a trooper with the team was posing as a minor on an investigative social media account. A 41-year-old male from Marquette began conversing and soliciting to meet […]
Former morning show host at WSOO, James “Jim” Thomas DiSanto, has been convicted and sentenced to prison for having sexual relations with a minor female between 13 and 16 years of age. 50th Circuit Court Judge James Lambros sentenced DiSanto to 5 ½ to 15 years in prison for his […]
Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years. Her son King Charles III said the death of his beloved mother was a “moment of great sadness” for him and his family and that her loss would be “deeply felt” around […]
Prison facilities in Ionia and Adrian are shrinking this fall in the wake of a plummeting prison population and a crippling shortage of workers. The consolidations won’t result in layoffs, however. There are enough openings in prisons in each of the Michigan communities to absorb the employees of the mothballed […]
An existing law criminalizing most abortions in Michigan is unconstitutional and shouldn’t be enforced, Court of Claims Judge Elizabeth Gleicher ruled. In an opinion issued Wednesday afternoon, Gleicher said enforcement of the long-dormant ban on abortions except for life-threatening pregnancies would mean Michigan women would be “denied appropriate, safe and […]