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After months of hashing out details a bill creating a license for midwives in the state advances out of a Michigan House committee. The bill lays out what midwives can or cannot do and includes education and certification requirements. State Representative Ken Yonker is worried the new standards will take …

Legislation that would require the state compensate the wrongfully convicted is headed to the Senate. Currently Michigan offers nothing to exonerees, but this bill would offer $60-thousand for each year a person is wrong fully imprisoned. Sponsor, Senator Steve Bieda says the lives and reputations of these people have been …

With hunting season arriving, the Michigan State Police from the Calumet Post is reminding people not to handle any suspicious materials they may find while in the woods. Those may be things like solvent containers, drain cleaners, fuel cans, coffee filters, cold packs, lithium batteries, bottles with sludge in them, …

Festival Ruska continues today with two events featuring musicians who studied at the Sibelius Music Academy in Finland. The band Baltic Crossing is a contemporary folk group with two members from Finland, two from the British Isles and the other is from Denmark. Finnish American Heritage Center Director Jim Kurtti …

The cost of electricity for many residents in the Upper Peninsula is scheduled to go up again in 2016. UPPCO has announced that they have applied to the Michigan Public Service Commission for the permission to raise retail electric base rates next year by 6.45 percent. As a regulated utility, UPPCO …

The Houghton Energy Efficiency Team, or HEET, has a solid plan to reduce utility usage in the area. The team was formed to compete for the five million dollar Georgetown University Energy Prize. The prize is awarded to the community which shows the most dedication to conserving electricity and natural …

A new national survey says nearly one out of four women have been sexually assaulted since they started college. The findings come from the Association of American Universities. More than 150,000 undergraduates from 27 universities participated, including both the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. Twenty-five percent of female …

A University of Michigan history professor and expert on Catholicism, Brian Porter-Szücs, believes Pope Frances’ visit to the United States this week could be one of the most watched papal visits in recent memory. He says that’s because non-Catholics are just as interested as Catholics in what the pope has …

The first of several abortion related bills will be heard in the House Criminal Justice Committee this morning. State Representative Kurt Heise, a Republican, chairs the committee and says videos allegedly showing Planned Parenthood workers offering to sell the body parts of aborted fetuses is driving the legislation. He says …

A former dentist in Houghton, who name is well known partially for the trails that bear his name, has died. Dr. Robert Owen Nara passed away at the Houghton County Medical Care Facility on Thursday, September 18th after a long illness. Nara opened his local dentist practice in 1961 and …