(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) LANSING — The Michigan Senate this week finalized an $88 billion budget plan that failed to include nearly $800 million in “sin taxes” ...
HOUGHTON — The City of Houghton Police Department sent out a warning Sunday informing people of targeted scams in the area. These scams appear to be court summons demanding payment for alleged traffic violations. The example provided by Houghton PD is a fake court summons from Nebraska, but ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday restored broad access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a ruling that had threatened to upend one of the main ways abortions are provided across the nation. The order signed by Justice Samuel Alito temporarily allows women seeking ...
MADISON — Some Wisconsin health professionals are bracing for a bad year for Lyme disease, as tick activity was already higher in April than at the same time last year. In much of the nation, emergency room visits for tick bites are at their highest weekly rate for this time of year since ...
Dear Annie: My husband and I have lived in our modest home for many years in a quiet, beautiful neighborhood where the houses have always felt gracious and in scale with one another. We are not extravagant people, and our little house has never been the biggest or fanciest on the block, but it ...
A complicated boundary dispute over a 468-square-mile strip of land can be attributed to poor maps and stubborn colonists. It resulted in Congress favoring Ohio and giving the Upper Peninsula to Michigan as a consolation prize when the latter “lost” the Toledo War to achieve ...