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The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) will conduct the first meeting of the Ontonagon Conservation District's newly appointed Board of Directors on May 14, 2019. Under a...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has ordered U.S. and Michigan flags within the State Capitol Complex and on all state buildings to be lowered to half-staff on Monday, May 13, 2019, to honor the life and service...

With almost 70 percent of the state's residential fire fatalities involving someone over the age of 40 in the last two years, State Fire Marshal Kevin Sehlmeyer today is urging Michiganders to Push th...

The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is investing about $2.6 million to resurface 21.6 miles of M-123 from I-75 to H-40 in Mackinac and Chippewa counties. The work starts on Monday, and wi...

Governor Gretchen Whitmer today announced the following appointment to the Mackinac Island State Park Commission. Phillip Pierce, a Democrat of Grosse Pointe Shores, is a managing member of Pierce, Mo...

A series of blood drives are planned across the Upper Peninsula over the next couple of weeks to help the U.P. Regional Blood Center in Marquette, which serves 13 Upper Peninsula hospitals. Here is th...

Governor Gretchen Whitmer has declared May to be "Michigan Wine Month" to honor our state's wide selection of quality wines and the wine industry's significant contribution to the economy. The number ...

U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Jimmie "Peanut" Butler was sentenced on May 9, 2019, to 262 months' incarceration followed by 10 years of supervised release for conspiring to distribut...

American Transmission Co. will begin soil boring testing the week of May 13 in preparation for the planned replacement of ATC's 138,000-volt submarine electric cables crossing the Straits of Mackinac ...

Today Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed House Bill 4206 to forgive four additional snow days that occurred while the state was under a state of emergency due to extreme cold temperatures during the 201...