WASHINGTON — U.S. Representatives Jack Bergman, R-Watersmeet and MI-01) and Nikki Budzinski D-Illinois, introduced a bipartisan bill, the Protect Postal Performance Act, to prevent the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from downsizing facilities in underserved areas, provide more oversight over ...

By SAFIYAH RIDDLE and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press PLANTERSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Kim Atchison was hunkered down in her grandmother's storm shelter with her 5-year-old grandson Saturday night in their tiny Alabama hometown of Plantersville when her husband and son raced in. "Get down; get ...

A federal appeals court ruling means the latest version of the Great Lakes Fishing Decree will stand. The decree deals with the allocation, management, and regulation of certain parts of the Great Lakes governed by the 1836 Treaty of Washington. Under that treaty, Ottawa and Chippewa nations ...

U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., has joined Senate colleagues in raising alarm about plans by the Trump administration to cut nearly 20% of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ workforce. In a letter to VA Secretary Doug Collins, Peters voiced strong opposition to the Department of Government ...

RESTON, Va. — Low-level helicopter flights are planned over areas of Upper Michigan and northern Wisconsin to image geology using airborne geophysical technology. Data collection for this survey area will be conducted beginning in April for approximately 4 months, weather and flight ...