Bouquet From The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development: Today we proudly celebrate World Veterinary Day — a day devoted to recognizing the valuable and essential contributions of veterinarians in maintaining animal and public health. The collaboration between MDARD and ...

Doing some spring cleaning this weekend? Don’t forget your medicine cabinet, officials advise. The National Prescription Drug Take Back Campaign is set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at roughly 4,000 drop-off locations across the nation, according to the Drug Enforcement ...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has proclaimed April as Child Abuse Prevention Month. Activities and initiatives planned throughout the month center on the symbolic blue-and-silver pinwheel of Prevent Child Abuse America, which serves as a visual representation that everyone plays a role in ...

Attorney General Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson are right that Michigan’s transparency requirements of elected officials are a joke. Efforts by their fellow Democrats to strengthen them fall solidly into the lame category. Until April, Michigan was one of two states that ...

The perennial spring message of leaving wildlife babies be took on added significance last week. Images circulated from North Carolina of a group of people pulling two very young bear cubs out of a tree to pose for selfies. One cub later turned up sitting in a nearby retention pond and was ...

Very often, it seems, the man falls through ice stories that make the news end badly — in the man’s death. We are pleased to report that a very recent case of a man falling through ice locally did, in fact, end positively. Here’s what happened. Last Friday afternoon, Thad Cooper of ...