In January of 2025, the Michigan Senate passed a bill that would include both the governor and state legislatures in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The legislation is sponsored by Sens.

News Kayla Wikaryasz From left, Shelley Martinez and her husband Greg Martinez Jr., Resist Spirits CEO and president, are seen at Jimmie Garant’s Party Store giving samples of their specialty bourbon ...

The Alpena County Sheriff’s Office has been made aware of another scam currently targeting friends and family members of individuals who are incarcerated. Scammers are accessing publicly available ...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources released its weekly fishing report for the Alpena area and as the ice melts, fishing should begin to heat up. On the Thunder Bay River, cold temperatures ...

Even though the grey wolf is classified as an endangered species, a new study found that the majority of Michigan’s recorded wolf deaths are caused by humans. Researchers from Michigan State ...

Courtesy photo Besser Company recently made a donation to the local nonprofit cancer support organization Friends Together.

Gerald Arbuckle, 49, convicted of second-degree murder in 1995 in Alpena, will be resentenced after a March 11 Michigan Court of Appeals decision ruling that the trial court failed to inform Arbuckle ...

Former President Barack Obama liked to quote the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s line that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Of course, what was an expression of ...

George Bernard Shaw’s quote, used by Robert F. Kennedy in his 1968 campaign, challenges us to dream. The full quote is: “Some men see things as they are and ask why, I dream things that never were and ...

On Wednesday, Governor Whitmer released the following statement following former Speaker Joe Tate’s announcement that he will ...

If there is one thing I’ve learned in the past 12 months, it’s that as a general population, we love electricity. On Christmas Eve, December 1940, my family homestead farmhouse experienced the glow of ...

It’s unclear if they taught this in those high school government courses that everybody slept through. But if somebody asked you what was the most important element in the legislative process, could ...