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Purple Tee event to benefit St. Jude children’s hospital

IRON MOUNTAIN — What began as T-Time for St. Jude is entering a new chapter under a new name but with the same goal of helping children and families facing some of life’s toughest battles. CSA Air will host the 2026 Purple Tee Golf Tournament on Thursday, June 18, at TimberStone Golf ...

MDOC raises pay for new officers at five UP prisons

LANSING – Five Upper Peninsula correctional facilities are offering an increased pay rate of about $10,000 more a year for new corrections officer recruits as the Michigan Department of Corrections seeks to address persistent staffing shortages. Under the department’s Safe Prisons ...

Public voting begins for Michigan’s ‘I voted’ sticker design contest

(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) Before Michigan residents vote for the state’s next governor and U.S. senator, they can cast ballots for a cat, a deer, a duck or even the ...

Michigan lawmakers revive push to legalize physician-assisted suicide

(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) Laws that would allow doctors to prescribe life-ending medication to terminally ill patients are being considered once again in ...

Initial findings released from PFAS in firefighters state study

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has released findings from a project to determine concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in blood of Michigan firefighters. The PFAS in Firefighters of Michigan Surveillance project is a statewide ...

Chaos in the run-up to Civil War

Editor’s note: Information on the Civil War is well-known, but what about some of the factors that led to its start? This week, we examine some of those issues and how, after years of growing tensions, the nation went to war with itself. --------- The seeds of the Antebellum period in ...