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Report: Wisconsin down 100K manufacturing jobs since 2001

Wisconsin has 100,000 fewer manufacturing jobs than it had in 2001 while health care and social assistance has become the state's largest professions, according to a new report from Forward Analytics. Manufacturing was the state’s largest industry in 2001 and now, along with 46 other states, ...

No new taxes, emphasis on literacy in Michigan budget

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 ...

New study traces PFAS in Great Lakes food webs over 40 years

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 ...

Democrat McMorrow suspends US Senate campaign in Michigan

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 ...

Bark River Knives’ personal property to be sold

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 ...