Recent Updates

MDEQ Grants Highland Copper Permits For Copperwood Mine

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 …

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Governor Whitmer Demands Answers, Action for Unpaid Federal Workers

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 …

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Spring Semester Of Language Instruction To Begin In February

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 …

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