ESCANABA – Bay College will host the Upper Michigan Safety Conference on Friday, April 24 at its Escanaba campus. The full-day event draws workers, supervisors and safety professionals from across the region to share knowledge, strengthen workplace safety practices and recognize a milestone ...
While many people compared the recent snow storm to one about 50 years ago, it is important to recognize the effort that goes into plowing and removing the piles of snow in the after math of the storm. I know some individuals that feel their personal situation took longer to remedy than ...
LANSING – For thousands of Michigan families, finding child care is not just difficult: It can determine whether parents can keep their jobs at all. About two thirds of children in the state under age 6 – more than 400,000 kids – have all their parents in the workforce, making child care ...
ALPENA – On April 12, 1981, the first space shuttle lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. At the exact same time in Alpena, Ella White elementary school fourth grader Corey Brooker watched in anticipation as the shuttle launched, and his dreams took flight from there. When Artemis 2 ...
(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) Paramedics and emergency medical technicians, or EMTs, face a harsh reality in Michigan — shrinking revenue has left emergency medical service ...
ESCANABA — The chief executive of a major distributor of Bark River Knives — the former Gladstone company that shuttered without notice two weeks ago — says it is facing significant losses while trying to protect customers due to Bark River’s use of Chinese steel in some of its knives, ...