LANSING – The dramatic decline in skilled trades education has caused a troubling workforce gap, said Colleen Sullivan, the deputy executive director of the Michigan AFL-CIO Workforce Development Institute. In recent years, Michigan employers have had a hard time filling in-demand skilled ...
LANSING – The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) is reporting the detection of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in two cattle herds from Alpena and Presque Isle counties. The cases were detected during the annual whole-herd surveillance tests for each herd. “Both ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Fired Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman told The Associated Press on Wednesday in his first interview since the ouster that he was “blindsided” by the move but has no hard feelings and is unlikely to sue. Rothman was fired on Tuesday night in a ...
STEPHENSON, Wis. -- One person is dead after the rollover of a UTV (utility terrain vehicle, or side-by-side) in Marinette County. The incident occurred Saturday. At 3:04 p.m. on April 4, Marinette County Dispatch was notified of a single UTV crash that happened on Caldron Falls Road near Fawn ...
Nearly 100,000 international students worked in Michigan after their graduation under the Optional Practical Training, or OPT, portion of their student visas from 2013–2022 — including over 50,000 engineering jobs, according to a new report from Global Detroit. The vast majority of these ...
(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) The Trump administration plans to close four US Forest Service research facilities in Michigan, shifting scientists out of the state as it ...