Category Archives: News

Upper Peninsula Unemployment Rate Falls To 4%
The Upper Peninsula's unemployment rate fell to four percent in September. The Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget says that is an improvement over the August level, which was 4-p...
Jack Hall Oct 28, 2021

NMU Board Approves $90.6 Million In Maintenance, Expansion Projects
The Northern Michigan University Board of Trustees voted to invest $90.6 million in capital projects, major maintenance and campus improvements. T hese projects are consistent with the goals previousl...
Jack Hall Oct 28, 2021

State Officials Spell Out Proposed Standards For Indigent Defense
Today, Orlene Hawks, the Director of the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA), signed the Indigency Standard proposed by the Michigan Indigent Defense Commission (MIDC). The Indigency...
Jack Hall Oct 28, 2021

Superior Watershed Partnership Planting Native Trees, Shrubs
The Superior Watershed Partnership received a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) grant in the amount of $216,395 from the USDA Forest Service for an Upper Peninsula project titled; The Northern...
Jack Hall Oct 28, 2021

UP Health System-Marquette Gets Award For Cardiovascular Services
UP Health System - Marquette, a Duke LifePoint hospital, has received the American College of Cardiology's NCDR Chest Pain MI Registry Silver Performance Achievement Award for 2021. UP Health System -...
Jack Hall Oct 28, 2021

Sault's War Memorial Hospital To Join Mid-Michigan Health
War Memorial Hospital and MidMichigan Health have signed an agreement which would make War Memorial the eighth Medical Center in the MidMichigan Health system. War Memorial and MidMichigan leadership ...
Jack Hall Oct 28, 2021

Superior Health Foundation Doles Out $639,000 In Grants
The Superior Health Foundation (SHF) in Marquette awarded more than $638,680 in health-centered grant funding at its Fall Grants Celebration on Wednesday evening at the Holiday Inn in Marquette. The e...
Jack Hall Oct 27, 2021

Upper Peninsula Adds Nine New COVID Deaths; 323 New Positive Tests
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday announced 7,867 new positive coronavirus test results and 76 new COVID-related deaths over the two-day period of Tuesday and Wednesday...
Jack Hall Oct 27, 2021

VA Medical Center Offering U.P. Veterans COVID Booster Shots
Oscar G Johnson VA Medical Center will offer veterans and employees Moderna and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine booster shots. The safety and care of veterans and our workforce are top prioriti...
Jack Hall Oct 27, 2021

Public Meeting Set Thursday On Menominee Mineral Leases
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has scheduled a virtual public meeting for Oct. 28 on requested mineral rights leases for properties in Menominee County. Great Lakes Exploration, Inc., of...
Jack Hall Oct 27, 2021

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