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Sunday, April 28, 2024
The Michigan State Police are, again, offering a “Train Like A Trooper” defensive driving school aimed at teenagers. These courses will be offered June 28-30, 2023 in Escanaba from 8am – 12pm or 1pm – 5pm. If you’re accepted into the program, you should dress in appropriate attire for a […]
On Wednesday, the Dafter Fire Department and the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a multi-car accident on M-28 near Soo LIne Rd. When emergency vehicles arrived, they were met with white-out conditions and the road was blocked due to a 9-car pile up. Dafter requested mutual aid assistance […]
McClellan Realty, LLC says they plan to renovate a vacant, historic building in downtown Sault Ste. Marie. A $1.5 million grant from the Michigan Community Revitalization Program and additional brownfield grant funds from EGLE will go towards renovating the site. EGLE says the MAC Building, located downtown across from the […]
ESCANABA, MI – More people are expected to attend this inaugural music festival than live in the actual city where the event is taking place. The first ever “Northern Lights Music Fest” has just been announced for this July in Escanaba in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, population 12,000. The event will […]
Thanks to the courage of additional victims who came forward, Cody Mathieu McCoy is in jail again with more drug, sex crimes and human trafficking charges. In our original article, with information from the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office on March 6 regarding McCoy’s original arrest, the Sheriff stated, “TRIDENT has […]
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives is offering up to $5,000 for information about a suspicious fire at the Enbridge pipeline maintenance shop and storage area back in August. They’re looking for any information that helps them identify and arrest whoever is responsible for the suspected arson at […]
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan, long known as a mainstay of organized labor, on Friday became the first state in decades to repeal a union-restricting law known as “right-to-work” that was passed over a decade ago by a Republican-controlled Legislature. The state’s “right-to-work” law had allowed those in unionized workplaces […]
LANSING — In late 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic was raging in Michigan, the state’s top law enforcement agency quietly began tracking what it deems hate or bias incidents against police. The agency counted 10 incidents of what it describes as anti-police bias and recorded them under its hate/bias category […]
ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — Powerful tornadoes that ripped through Mississippi – destroying buildings and obliterating at least one town – killed almost two dozen people, officials said Saturday. They warned that the casualty toll could go higher. The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said in a Twitter post that search […]
DETROIT – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, revises schedule following public scoping for Enbridge Line 5 Tunnel permit application review. Enbridge Energy seeks authorization to cross the Straits of Mackinac and impact adjacent wetlands for construction of the Line 5 Tunnel. The Detroit District, responsible for evaluating […]
