LANSING – Governor Gretchen Whitmer has ordered U.S. and Michigan flags within the State Capitol Complex to be lowered to half-staff on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, to honor the life and service of former state Senator Shirley Johnson. “My administration and the entire state of Michigan ...
CALUMET — Village resident and business owner Pete Hahn was appointed to the Village Planning Commission at the regular January Village Council meeting last Tuesday. Former member Chris Green was also re-appointed, in spite of a bitter objection from Trustee Roxanne King, ending a months-long ...
Dear Annie: My husband and I have been together since 2008 and married since 2011. We slept in the same bed, held hands and talked about everything in the beginning. Then, in 2013, he got a job in Iowa. I stayed home until my youngest went to college. I joined him in September 2014. He ...
On one of my weekend exploratory trips I went to Calumet, Michigan, 15 miles north of Hancock. The town was a historical treasure. I learned that in its zenith, at the turn of the century, it was a thriving town surrounded by copper mines. At its height there was even some talk in the Michigan ...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The entire University of Michigan athletic department is pausing after several positive tests for the new COVID-19 variant that transmits at a higher rate. The state Department of Health and Human Services issued the mandate Saturday, with the school saying it ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: If I have the beginnings of arthritis of the knee, is an elliptical machine better to use than a treadmill? -- M.D. ANSWER: If you had an inflammatory arthritis like rheumatoid arthritis, there are powerful medicines that can dramatically slow or stop progression of the ...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The state of Michigan is seeking input from the public on an updated public lands strategy. There are roughly 4.6 million acres of state-owned forests, parks, trails, game and wildlife areas and other public lands. Feedback on the draft will be accepted through Feb. ...
PORT HURON, Mich. (AP) — On an overcast afternoon in January, U.S. Coast Guard BOSN William Hosford recalled the 14-foot aluminum boat they used to use for ice rescues. “It took basically all of us to carry it from a trailer, down across a beach, and then we would have to drag it along ...
The public will have an opportunity during an online meeting Wednesday, Jan. 27, to provide feedback on draft recommendations before the Michigan Dam Safety Task Force that address gaps in the state’s regulatory oversight of more than 1,000 dams in Michigan. The 86 preliminary ...
Garrett Neese/Daily Mining Gazette Molly Kiilunen helps her son Corey, 4, as sons Lars, 8, and John, 7, speed ahead as the first skaters on the Kestner Park Skating Ribbon Friday. Despite Friday’s cold, several skaters headed out on the course shortly after its grand opening at 3 p.m.
MARQUETTE — The Calumet man accused of being part of the mob that stormed the Capitol building on Jan. 6 will continue to be detained before his transfer to Washington, D.C., a federal judge ruled Friday. The federal probation office had recommended Dresch be released under particular ...
CALUMET — The Village Planning Commission and the Village Council continue to move forward with zoning and marijuana ordinances, but are doing so cautiously to avoid further or future problems. In the order of procedures listed in the Michigan General Law Village Act, in order to implement ...
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan restaurants and bars can reopen for indoor dining at 25% capacity and with a 10 p.m. curfew starting Feb. 1, and concessions can resume at casinos, movie theaters and stadiums, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Friday. The state health department’s coronavirus ...
Graham Jaehnig/Daily Mining Gazette Houghton City Police Thursday responded to a two-vehicle property damage crash on Shelden Avenue in which the Chevrolet Silverado had to be towed from the scene due to a broken rear axle.
Dear Annie: My daughter, “Emily,” has been dating “Ben” for almost two years. Ben is a great guy, aside from one issue that’s been bugging me: He refuses to drive anywhere and instead has my daughter drive him. He says it’s because a few years ago he was in a car accident and has ...
CALUMET — The Village Council addressed the issue of ordinance enforcement at its regular meeting Tuesday, in response to several complaints and concerns regarding the possibility that Cafe Rosetta poses a public health risk to the community by refusing to shut down. The cafe is operating in ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: Sixty years ago, I was diagnosed with Raynaud’s syndrome by my doctor. I started taking nifedipine during winter months, but not during the summer. After moving to Colorado, I took the medication year-round because the weather here was often cool in the mountains even in ...
HOUGHTON — A Hancock was sentenced to up to 25 years in prison on child pornography charges in Houghton County Circuit Court Wednesday. Justin Covert, 32, was arrested in August after an investigation by the Michigan State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. The initial tip ...
Here are the latest news updates from the Buffalo Reef Task Force on developments to save the natural underwater reef in Lake Superior’s Grand Traverse Bay, off the eastern side of the Keweenaw Peninsula. Over the past roughly 100 years, historic copper mine tailings from the Wolverine and ...
LANSING — In his second term in the Michigan House, state Rep. Greg Markkanen today was appointed by Michigan House Speaker Jason Wentworth to serve on four House committees. Markkanen, of Hancock, will serve as vice chair for the House Energy Committee and the House Natural Resources and ...