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The fourth annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration at Finlandia University will get started Sunday night at 5 p.m. with a brief worship service, continue with the annual day of service and community meal Monday, and conclude on Thursday with the film “When We Were Kings.” On Sunday as …

Washington – Congressman Jack Bergman has announced his support of a bipartisan bill to pay U.S. Coast Guard members during the partial government shutdown. H.R. 367, the Pay Our Coast Guard Parity Act of 2019, would provide all pay and benefits for members of the Coast Guard as well as …

On Friday, January 18th 2019, detectives from Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement Team (UPSET) executed a search warrant at a residence on Pine St in the Village of Calumet. The search warrant was the result of a two-month long investigation into the illegal selling of prescription drugs and the attempted solicitation …

Governor Gretchen Whitmer has declared January 2019 to be Radon Action Month in Michigan, and she is encouraging all Michigan residents to learn more about this environmental hazard and test their homes. You cannot see, smell, or taste radon, and there are no short-term side effects to alert you that it …

[Escanaba, Michigan – January 18, 2019] – CARLY PEARCE, the new voice of country, takes the stage at the U.P. State Fair on Monday, August 12. Carly Pearce is a 27 year old who grew up in a small town in Kentucky. At the young age of 11, Pearce fronted …

Highland Copper Company has received the mining, air and dam safety permits from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality for its Copperwood Project at the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park. A requested amendment to the original mining permit that was granted in 2012 was also approved by the DEQ, allowing …

Governor Gretchen Whitmer is joining the governors from Washington and New York in demanding action from the Trump administration for unpaid federal workers. The concern is over the state’s ability to make unemployment benefits to federal workers who have remained on the job during the partial government shutdown. “As governors …

Whether you don’t even know how to pronounce “sauna,” or if you used to have full conversations with your Finnish immigrant grandmother, the Finnish American Heritage Center (FAHC) has just the class for you this semester. The FAHC is offering three levels of Finnish language this term, all of which are led …

MANISTIQUE OUTPOST: On January 16, 2019 at approximately 5:30 pm Troopers from the Michigan State Police, Manistique Outpost, were dispatched to a single vehicle crash on Port Inland Road just south of US-2 in Doyle Township of Schoolcraft County. Upon arriving on scene, Troopers found the driver of the vehicle …

Michigan conservation officers obtained confessions Tuesday from two Upper Peninsula men suspected in separate, unrelated wolf poaching incidents in Ontonagon and Menominee counties. Prosecuting attorneys are reviewing details of the two cases, with decisions on specific charges to be brought expected soon. Gray wolves are a protected species under the …