Category Archives: News

LaFave Introduces Legislation To Ban 'Vaccine Passports'
Rep. Beau LaFave, of Iron Mountain, today announced a sweeping plan to prohibit the use of a new form of government-mandated identification known as vaccine passports. The identification would reveal ...
Jack Hall Apr 09, 2021

Sault Man Gets 30 Years For Sex With Young Child
U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced that Ralph Fletcher Hepner, Jr., 53, of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 360 months' imprisonment for abusive sexual contact wit...
Jack Hall Apr 09, 2021

Governor Appoints Schoolcraft County Man To Propane Commission
Today, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced the following appointments to the Michigan Propane Commission. Kristopher H. Bowman, of Gulliver, is the president of Bowman Gas Company. He is a member of t...
Jack Hall Apr 09, 2021

FIrst Coronavirus Variant Case Reported In Delta County
Public Health Delta & Menominee Counties was notified that genetic testing has confirmed that the B.1.1.7 variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 was detected in a positive case within Delta Cou...
Jack Hall Apr 09, 2021

UK Variant Detected In Mackinac County; 18 Variant Cases In U.P.
LMAS District Health Department has received confirmation of the B.1.1.7. variant of COVID-19 in a Mackinac County resident. Marquette County identified the first cases of the variant in the UP on Mar...
Jack Hall Apr 09, 2021

Whitmer Urges Schools To Go Virtual, Suspend Spring Sports
At a press conference in Lansing today, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced that Michigan will hit more than five million vaccinations by the end of the day. While vaccine supply has increased dramati...
Jack Hall Apr 09, 2021

Michigan Coronavirus Cases, Deaths Continue To Rise; U.P. Adds 87 Cases
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday reported 7,819 new coronavirus positive tests and 30 new deaths. State officials also looked through death certificates and matched the...
Jack Hall Apr 08, 2021

Whitmer Signs Bill Changing Allocation Of Pheasant Hunting License Fees
Today, Governor Whitmer signed House Bill 4126, which amends the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act to change the allocation of fees collected for pheasant hunting licenses. "Michigand...
Jack Hall Apr 08, 2021

Upper Peninsula Airports Approved For FAA Grants
U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (MI) and Gary Peters (MI) today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation will be awarding $1,007,549 to Ford Airport, $1,020,062 to Sawyer International Airpo...
Jack Hall Apr 08, 2021

Nessel Praises Biden's Gun Control Orders; Bergman Blasts Them
President Biden is signing a series of executive actions aimed at curbing gun violence. He says gun violence is a public health crisis and an epidemic that is an "international embarrassment." The mov...
Jack Hall Apr 08, 2021

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Local News from the RRN News Center
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