WASHINGTON — For Senate Democrats, an oh-so-slim 51-49 majority never sounded so good. Sen. Raphael Warnock’s victory in swing-state Georgia gives Democrats a welcome “lift,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday at the Capitol -- newly confident of sidelining ...

HOUGHTON — No vote totals changed in the official results for the Nov. 8 election in Houghton County. The county Board of Canvassers met to certify the results Thursday morning. The final results released by the county included numbers for individual write-in candidates; the unofficial ...

HOUGHTON — Houghton County voters elected the current sheriff and incumbents on the county board. In Hancock, the council has 30 days to select a new member after one candidate who withdrew from the race finished among the top four vote-getters. In the sheriff race, Republican Joshua ...

A Massachusetts Democrat is the country’s first openly lesbian candidate to be elected to the office of governor. In Maryland, voters elected the state’s first Black governor. Vermont will finally send a woman to Congress, after being the only state never to have had female representation ...

HOUGHTON — While Democratic statewide candidates swept the top offices, the Republican candidates continued to win more votes in the Copper Country. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer received 43.9% of the vote in the four-county area, down 0.5 percentage points from 2018, while Republican Tudor Dixon ...

HOUGHTON — Election officials locally and statewide reported high participation rates and in-person turnout for the 2022 midterms Tuesday. As of Tuesday morning, 1.71 million people had returned absentee ballots from among more than 2 million who had requested them, Michigan Secretary of ...