This week’s bouquets go to: From Janey Lindstrom of Escanaba: I would like to express thankfulness for the concert given by the Bay de Noc Choral Society and Escanaba High School Chorale. It was a beautiful selection of music and it reminded me again of the people who have been gifted with ...

The NFL draft has taken the show on the road for a decade, giving cities around the country a chance to be in the spotlight. Detroit is on the clock. The Motor City, which was once one of the nation’s largest and most powerful cities, has bounced back from filing for bankruptcy in 2013, ...

The perennial spring message of leaving wildlife babies be took on added significance last week. Images circulated from North Carolina of a group of people pulling two very young bear cubs out of a tree to pose for selfies. One cub later turned up sitting in a nearby retention pond and was ...

It’s spring in Michigan and that means Michiganders are thinking about what they want to plant in their garden this year. As gardening season gets underway, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) is asking people to learn about the risks posed by invasive plant ...

Attorney General Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson are right that Michigan’s transparency requirements of elected officials are a joke. Efforts by their fellow Democrats to strengthen them fall solidly into the lame category. Until April, Michigan was one of two states that ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has proclaimed April as Child Abuse Prevention Month. Activities and initiatives planned throughout the month will center on the symbolic blue-and-silver pinwheel of Prevent Child Abuse America, which serves as a visual representation that everyone plays a role in ...