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The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) installed two nest boxes – one each on the north and south bridge towers – in spring 2012 and a pair of peregrine falcons showed up the next spring. After raising four chicks on the south tower last year, the pair produced three offspring …

Middle-school science teachers from across Michigan are back in school themselves this week at Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU), Grand Valley State University (GVSU) and Michigan Technological University, working on a new and better way to teach middle-school science. They are participating in the Michigan Science Teaching and Assessment Reform …

Nineteen people have lost their jobs at the Verso Paper Mill in Escanaba. Company spokeswoman Jackie Pride says the layoffs all came in salaried positions because there was a need to better align the number of people to the needs of the business. She says the laid off employees were …