In a move that shows the government budget cycle is never truly over, appropriators in the Michigan Senate on Wednesday took their first steps toward instituting the House’s earmark transparency rules into state law. Members of the Senate Appropriations Committee had a hearing for Senate ...

ESCANABA – The Delta County Board on Tuesday approved Mead & Hunt to complete several improvement projects at Delta County Airport. The board has authorized spending a total of $425,000 in the Airport Capital Improvement Program for design and construction to expand the airport's snow ...

ESCANABA — The Harvest of Harmony event Saturday drew both laughter and applause in the William Oliver Auditorium at Escanaba Upper Elementary, formerly the junior high. The annual concert hosted by the Delta County MI Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society — of which The Remnants of ...

(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online at bridgemi.com.) LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday ended months of uncertainty by signing an $81 billion state government budget — finalizing a ...

LANSING — Jeffrey Holden spends his summers knee-deep in dead moose. In his new book “Dead Moose on Isle Royale: Off Trail with the Citizen Scientists of the Wolf-Moose Project” (Michigan State University Press, $24.95), Holden turns decades of volunteer field notes and short essays ...

In recognition of October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Delta County Cancer Alliance and the Daily Press have shared efforts to sponsor this year’s Pink Fest, otherwise known as the “Bras for a Cause” decorating contest. Money is raised during the four-week event from both ...