MILWAUKEE — The We Energies Foundation this year is providing its largest donation yet through the Rewarding Responders Grant program to help police, fire and emergency medical services agencies improve public safety. The foundation will provide $150,000 in grant funding — up from $100,000 ...

LANSING — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced the addition of an opioid settlement report and spending guidance to the Department of Attorney General’s website to strengthen transparency in how opioid settlement funds are used across the state. In July 2025, the Department of ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — Lake Antoine Park Partners is calling on community members to help prepare the park for the summer season. The first work bee of the year is slated from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Lake Antoine Park in Iron Mountain. Volunteers will assist with a variety of cleanup ...

Remaining seasonal weight restrictions on all state trunkline highways in Michigan will be lifted effective 7 a.m. Friday, the Michigan Department of Transportation said. State routes typically carry I, M or U.S. designations. County road commissions and city public works departments put in ...

MARQUETTE — Last week, Tom Pegenau, owner of Pegenau Builders, set up a wooden gallows structure with a noose outside of the Pegenau Builders business on M-28 in Chocolay Township, later painted with the words “bureaucrats,” “justice” and “freedom,” along with a banner reading ...

Two Fire Boss aircraft, each capable of scooping up to 800 gallons of water from a lake in just 15 seconds, have been added to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources firefighting fleet this season. The planes, leased from late April through early June – historically the worst part of ...