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Michigan voters approve 96% of road millage renewals

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LANSING — Voters across Michigan expressed support for local road millages during Tuesday's primary election, approving 92% of new millages and 96% of renewal proposals on local ballots, according to data provided by Lansing-based Gongwer News Service. Residents in counties, cities, villages and townships voted to continue or expand their investment in local roads to complement the additional state dollars pledged from the 2025 Road Funding Package. A total of 156 local road millage proposals — 107 renewals and 50 increases — appeared on ballots across the state. That number ...

Iron County voters support millage proposals

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West Iron County School District voters approved a sinking fund replacement millage on Tuesday, one of a number of tax proposals to gain support in the county. The West Iron vote was 1,100 yes to 717 no. With a previously approved sinking fund millage expiring this year, the district sought a levy not to exceed 0.85 mills, or 85 cents per $1,000, for 10 years beginning in 2027. It will raise about $332,830 in the first year. The millage is for such purposes as the repair or construction of buildings, security improvements, technology and student transportation. According to ...

Millage renewals approved across Dickinson County

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IRON MOUNTAIN — Turnout in Dickinson County was about 30% in Tuesday's primary election as voters approved millage renewals by comfortable margins for roads and the Norway-Vulcan Senior Citizens Center, among others. The Dickinson County Road Commission sought renewal of a levy of 0.5 ...

Prestin, Johnson, Barr prevail in contested primary races

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Republican voters in Michigan’s 38th Senate District nominated state Rep. David Prestin, R-Cedar River, as their candidate Tuesday with 53% of the vote to 47% for Beau LaFave. Prestin’s reported margin of victory was less than 2,000 votes and came in a race that had Upper Peninsula lawmakers endorsing Prestin while U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Watersmeet, endorsed LaFave — a former state representative from Iron Mountain. Current 38th District state Sen. Ed McBroom, R-Waucedah Township, who is leaving office due to term limits, was among the lawmakers endorsing Prestin. McBroom ...

CDC: 15 states now linked to lettuce cyclospora outbreak

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NEW YORK (AP) — Parasitic illness cases in 15 states have been linked to iceberg lettuce, U.S. health officials said Wednesday. Cyclospora cases have been reported in at least 47 states this year, and investigators have continued to probe how many could be linked to a common contaminated ...