LANSING — May 2026 has officially been declared Pure Michigan Month by Governor Gretchen Whitmer. "We recognize the iconic Pure Michigan brand as the state’s calling card, inspiring immense local pride and driving tourism growth for 20 years,” Whitmer said. "The Pure Michigan brand has ...
A new effort to force states to affirm the Trump administration’s views on DEI, transgender athletes and immigration when signing contracts with the U.S. Forest Service is threatening millions of dollars in wildfire grant funding and fire reduction projects on federal lands. Some liberal ...
The Trump administration’s recently announced plans to radically restructure the U.S. Forest Service have raised concerns among advocates that forest land across Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest could suffer. The plan, announced late last month, will relocate the agency’s head office from ...
When the 13 colonies in the east began their push toward independence from Britain, Michigan was more than a half-century away from becoming a state and the people of the Upper Peninsula still primarily indigenous. To tell their history in the region, Northern Michigan University in 2019 ...
LANSING – Jason Robert Cabello, 48, of Saginaw, pled no contest on April 20 to the 2003 murder and sexual assault of Jeanette Wilton, 57, of Saginaw, announced Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. He pled before Judge Manvel Trice III in the 10th Circuit Court in Saginaw County to one count ...
A 45-year-old Vulcan woman died early Thursday in a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 141 near Offerman Road in Iron County’s Hematite Township. Also injured was a 22-year-old Vulcan female passenger in the 2020 Chevrolet Colorado driven by the 45-year-old, Iron County Sheriff Ryan Boehmke said in a ...