(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) After the federal government failed to renew a $1.5 million federal grant by Saturday, officials at the Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency ...

ESCANABA – A Rock woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of Medicaid fraud–false claim and as a habitual offender-second offense in Delta County 47th Circuit Court, avoiding a jury trial that was supposed to start that same day. Nicole Marie Stouffer and her defense attorney, Michael ...

ESCANABA – The Escanaba City Council will have its second public hearing Thursday on proposed improvements on South 18th Street from 20th to 22nd avenues South. The council's first public hearing was Oct. 16, after eight property owners petitioned for a 24-foot-wide, double-chip seal ...

Editor’s note: This story replaces an Associated Press story published Oct. 30 that incorrectly stated the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had approved energy company Enbridge’s plans to build a protective tunnel to encase a Line 5 pipeline that runs beneath the Straits of Mackinac. ...

LANSING — Pre-proposal submissions for the Department of Natural Resources’ yearly fisheries habitat grants are now being accepted. Each year, the DNR allocates $1.5 million in fisheries habitat grants to governments and nonprofit organizations around the state. To receive a grant, ...