Greg Sass steers a boat out towards four bright orange, round buoys floating off the shore of Escanaba Lake. Two graduate students on the boat hold onto wrapped PVC piping that gets hooked up to the buoys. Back on shore, those pipes are connected to a water heater you might find at an ...

LANSING — Michigan’s fiscal year 2027 budget that was passed Friday morning includes new investments in student literacy and continued funding for other priorities, according to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. State Rep. Greg Markkanen, R-Hancock, in a news release Friday said the budget locks in ...

Researchers from the University of Notre Dame have developed the most comprehensive look yet at how PFAS moves through the food web in the Great Lakes. The study published this spring in the Journal of Environmental Quality analyzed 42 years of studies and combined nearly 2,500 samples of ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Democrat Mallory McMorrow suspended her campaign for the U.S. Senate on Sunday, abruptly reshaping the party primary just a month before the election and leaving a two-person contest between moderate Haley Stevens and progressive Abdul ...

ESCANABA — The remaining personal property of the now-shuttered Bark River Knives will be sold after a Delta County Circuit Court judge authorized the move Thursday as part of the company’s ongoing receivership. Judge John Economopoulos approved the sale of the assets inside the former ...