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Sunday, May 5, 2024
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – The Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan will open the Poe Lock to all marine traffic at 6 p.m. on March 22, marking the start of the 2024 Great Lakes shipping season. The shipping industry requested an early season opening due the urging of […]
Lawmakers in Lansing began considering bills last week that would allow the state to partner with a private manufacturer to produce and distribute low-cost generic insulin. The state House Health Policy Committee heard testimony from the backers of two bills that would require the Michigan Strategic Fund to create an […]
Updated guidelines for co-management of fishery resources in parts of Michigan’s Great Lakes are now in effect for the next 24 years. The new Great Lakes Fishing Decree was approved Aug. 24, 2023, by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. In the months since the decree’s […]
On June 26th 2023, Mackinac County Sheriffs Deputies received information that an 18-year-old Portage Township man was engaged in an inappropriate online relationship with a 12-year-old female in a suburb of Austin, TX. During the course of the investigation, Sheriffs Deputies determined Kelton Paul Salowitz of Curtis, MI had been […]
Robots probably won’t take over the world. But they will take over Lake Superior State University for three days in March. In the university’s annual FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics competition, 40 teams of teenagers from high schools all over the state will compete at LSSU March […]
The Department of Natural Resources is committed to providing Michigan residents the opportunity to share input and ideas on policy decisions, programs and other aspects of natural resource management and outdoor recreation opportunities. One important avenue for this input is at meetings of the public bodies that advise the DNR […]
SAULT STE MARIE, MI – It all started at, presumably, the southern border where everything is clear as mud. 19 non-resident aliens entered the US and somehow came into possession of a converted school bus. They drove that bus from – wherever – north into Grand Traverse County where they […]
On Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024, officers from the Sault Ste. Marie Police Department were dispatched to a residence on Rapids Drive for a 911 hang-up call. Chippewa County Central Dispatch had received a call that sounded like two subjects arguing but dispatch couldn’t reach anyone after the call had ended. […]
Sault Ste. Marie, MI – Dr. David Travis, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Wisconsin at River Falls has been selected as the 11th President of Lake Superior State University. The Travis appointment was formalized at a special meeting of the Board of Trustees on […]
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Feb. 13 – The Michigan High School Athletic Association has selected nine student-athletes from Class B member schools to receive scholarships through the MHSAA/Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete Award program. Farm Bureau Insurance, in its 35th year of sponsoring the award, will give $2,000 college scholarships to 32 individuals […]
