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The Hancock City Council is pleased with the job City Manager Glenn Anderson has been doing and they want him to keep doing it. At Wednesday’s regular monthly meeting, the council approved a new three year contract for Anderson. The contract, which runs from July 1st of this year through …

The future of the Baraga County Public Library could depend on the outcome of a millage proposal on the May 5th ballot. The library is located within the L’Anse Area Schools and serves as the public library for the entire community. The school system has been paying for the library …

The Historic Calumet Theater is certainly one of the gems of the Copper Country, but is it the best historic theater in Michigan MLive has compiled a list of 47 historic theaters in the state and are asking people to vote via their website for their favorite. They will narrow …

An Escanaba woman has been ordered to pay $100,000 in restitution to a resident at the Jacobetti Home for Veterans that she stole from.   37-year-old Frances Kreft was ordered to repay that sum in Delta County Circuit Court on Wednesday. Additionally, she was sentenced to nine months in jail …

Some young conservatives within the Republican party who support gay rights are urging party leaders to drop anti-gay language from the Republican Party Platform. They are coming through Michigan this week after previous stops in several other states. Others within the party have said the platform language opposing same sex …

Escanaba has received permission to close its power plant this summer. The Mid-Continent Independent System Operators has decided not to extend a “system support resource” agreement with the city to keep the power plant operating. The city had been receiving payments for several years to keep the power plant on …

Groups opposed to Prop 1 took to the statehouse Wednesday to lobby lawmakers against the ballot proposal. Paul Mitchell with the Coalition Against Higher Taxes and Special Interest Deals led the charge at a rally on the East lawn of the capitol encouraging people to go office-to-office and state their …

Michigan’s unemployment rate in March dropped three-tenths of a percentage point to 5.6 percent. According to the Department of Technology, Management & Budget, the number of unemployed in the state fell by 14,000 over the month; however total employment edged upward by only 2,000. The net result was a labor …

Legislation that makes major reforms to Michigan’s no-fault auto insurance law appears to be on the fast track. The state Senate Insurance Committee Wednesday advanced a bill that would create a new governor-appointed group to handle claims for catastrophic injuries, put limits on attendant care, establish an auto insurance fraud …

Democratic lawmakers in Michigan have introduced a series of bills designed to provide tax breaks to the middle class in the state. The three bills – if approved – would reinstate a per-child tax deduction, a homestead property tax credit and roll back a tax on retirement income. Callie Melton, …