KBIC to participate in state Native American boarding school investigation

The state attorney general department is seeking testimony from survivors with firsthand knowledge about life inside the ...
Yahoo

Local legislators join corrections workers on picket line outside Baraga prison

BARAGA, Mich. (WJMN) — Prison corrections workers and their supporters were out on the picket line for a second day on Tuesday outside of the Baraga Maximum Correctional Facility. This comes over a ...

SNAP benefits to return Monday, food pantries and non profits say ‘community need remains’

M ARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - As the government reopens, federal funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or ...
Washington Examiner

Mich. opposes tribe-owned gas station in UP

MARQUETTE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration is urging the federal government to reject a gas station proposed by an American Indian tribe in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula because ...
MLive

DNR hearing, open house on UP's Baraga forest unit

BARAGA, Mich. — An open house and public hearing on the 2013 management plan for the Baraga Forest Management Unit in the western Upper Peninsula is scheduled at the Michigan Department of Natural ...
WKAR

Audits reveal issues at Mich. prisons with high-security facilities

New state reports out Thursday list concerns with three of Michigan’s prisons. The Michigan Office of Auditor General reported issues at the Richard A. Handlon, Ionia, and Baraga correctional ...