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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Property owners in six Michigan counties can apply for Deer Private Land Assistance Network Grants.

The program is designed to fund deer habitat improvement projects on...

ALPENA, Mich. (AP) — An Alpena judge who was removed from the docket a year go has remained under investigation and authorities have offered few details, according to a newspaper report....

ALPENA, Mich. (AP) — A community in the northern Lower Peninsula has approved three hunts in September to target local populations of nuisance geese.

ROGERS CITY, Mich. (AP) — A small college in Michigan is counting on another bowler from a high school in the northern Lower Peninsula.

Jayce Sauve is the third bowler from Rogers City to...

ALPENA, Mich. (AP) — Some small Michigan communities aren't giving up on summer traditions despite the coronavirus.

The Alpena Municipal Council is giving people time to raise money for a...

ROGERS CITY, Mich. (AP) — Wreckage from a freighter that sank in Lake Huron around 115 years ago has moved toward Michigan's shoreline due to high water levels and waves, weakening the ruins...

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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — State safety regulators say grants worth $870,000 are being awarded to 20 nonprofit groups.

The grants are awarded each year for the development of safety and health...

ALPENA, Mich. (AP) — Rising water levels in the Great Lakes are bringing pieces of shipwrecks ashore along Michigan's Lake Huron shoreline.

ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) — Four Michigan airports will share in more than $34 million in federal grants.

The U.S. Department of Transportation says Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus,...

ALPENA, Mich. (AP) — Federal funding will enable Alpena Community College to step up its use of interactive video to treat patients dealing with opioid addiction in Michigan's northeastern Lower...

ALPENA, Mich. (AP) — Spirited bluegrass and Americana artists the Way Down Wanderers are headlining a music-filled Independence Day festival in northern Michigan.

ALPENA, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan appeals court has taken Bruiser off death row.

A judge had ordered that the German shepherd be euthanized after attacking a jogger in Alpena County in 2017....

DETROIT (AP) — Michigan is receiving an $8.6 million federal grant to improve the condition of railroad tracks in the state.

The funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation will go to...

ALPENA, Mich. (AP) — Authorities are pleading with the public for help in solving the 2012 disappearance of an Alpena County woman.

The seventh anniversary of Lisa Knight's disappearance is...

ALPENA, Mich. (AP) — What's hot at a northern Michigan community college? Climbing power poles.

Alpena Community College reports a two-year waiting list for climbing courses in the school's...

ALPENA, Mich. (AP) — The clerk in a small county in the northern Lower Peninsula is urging officials to install bulletproof glass at the courthouse, saying her employees are "sitting...

ALPENA, Mich. (AP) — Government researchers are using sonar to map the bottom of portions of Lake Huron.

The Alpena News says the work is underway off Presque Isle County. The National...

LINCOLN, Mich. (AP) — A company that burns wood for energy has struck a new deal to produce power for Consumers Energy.

The Alpena News reports that Viking Energy reached an eight-year...

ALPENA, Mich. (AP) — A nonprofit professional theatre and an Alpena high school are collaborating with Central Michigan University's theater department on a series dealing with social injustice...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Officials say a small beef cattle herd in northern Michigan has been infected with bovine tuberculosis.

The state Department of Agriculture and Rural Development says...

ALPENA, Mich. (AP) — A northern Michigan special education teacher has been accused of sexually assaulting a student, beginning when the boy was 11 years old.

ROGERS CITY, Mich. (AP) — Family, fun, and fish — it's all in a day's work at Carmeuse Lime and Stone.

The recent wintery winds held off long enough for 39 children and grandchildren of...

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Alanson 51, Alba 30

Alpena 48, Cadillac 46

AuGres-Sims 62, Atlanta 51

Bath 49, Fulton-Middleton 25

Battle Creek St. Philip 57, Burr Oak 34

Bay City All Saints 65, Akron-Fairgrove 27

Berrien Springs 62, Gobles 59

Bessemer 71, Chassell 61

Big Rapids 49, Newaygo 44

Big Rapids Crossroads Charter Academy 78, Mason County Eastern 53

Blanchard Montabella 51, Vestaburg 41

Brown City 71, Ubly 41

Burton Faith 63, Owosso Spring Vale 43

Calhoun Christian 63, Kalamazoo Heritage Christian 34

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Addison 56, Jackson East Jackson 42

Adrian Lenawee Christian 51, Vandercook Lake 37

Alanson 68, Vanderbilt 14

Allen Park 54, Taylor 38

Allen Park Inter-City Baptist 73, Bloomfield Hills Roeper 54

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan health officials say a child from Alpena County is the second in the state to die from the flu this season.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services confirmed this week that the child died from complications of flu. The child was of school-age, but details including the child's name weren't released. Alpena County is located about 185 miles (298 kilometers) north of Detroit.

ALPENA, Mich. (AP) — The show won't go on.

A theater in northern Michigan has canceled a production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" because the small cast has been too ill to perform.

ALPENA, Mich. (AP) — A largemouth bass virus has been found in two additional lakes in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula.

The state Department of Natural Resources in October announced that the virus that affected fish in the early 2000s in southern Michigan lakes was confirmed in Cedar Lake in Michigan's northeastern Lower Peninsula.

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Adrian Madison 44, Jonesville 38

Alba 37, Cadillac Heritage Christian 28

Alpena 65, Bay City Western 47

Athens 75, Battle Creek St. Philip 55

Atlanta 55, Burt Lake Northern Michigan Christian Academy 22

Bark River-Harris 67, Crystal Falls Forest Park 61

Bellevue 73, Tekonsha 35

Bessemer 67, Baraga 29

Blanchard Montabella 73, Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart 70

GRAYLING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Air National Guard is seeking input on a plan to update military training airspace around an aerial gunnery range in northern Michigan — a change that officials say could alter noise levels in surrounding communities.

The proposal would change and create new military operating areas in the Alpena Special Use Airspace Complex. That site is the military's largest training zone east of the Mississippi River and includes the Grayling Aerial Gunnery Range.

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Ada Forest Hills Eastern 75, Wyoming 71

Allen Park Cabrini 58, Clarkston Everest Collegiate 41

Allendale 50, Zeeland West 48

Alpena 79, Escanaba 67

Bad Axe 65, Cass City 42

Bay City John Glenn 53, Bay City Western 40

Beal City 72, Evart 50

Benton Harbor 71, St. Joseph 32

Benzie Central 49, Buckley 44

Big Rapids Crossroads Charter Academy 66, Walkerville 45

Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood 67, Madison Heights Bishop Foley 57

ALPENA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A 60-year-old woman has died in northern Michigan after her snowmobile broke through ice on a lake.

The Alpena News reports that police and other rescuers were able to reach Lynne Bever but couldn't immediately pull her from Long Lake in Alpena County. She was pronounced dead at a hospital Friday.

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Adrian Madison 61, Ottawa Lake Whiteford 43

Alma 47, Carrollton 41

Almont 69, Algonac 30

Alpena 80, Cheboygan 45

Ann Arbor Greenhills 52, Auburn Hills Oakland Christian 37

Ann Arbor Pioneer 57, Jackson 44

Battle Creek Academy 45, Kalamazoo Heritage Christian 40

Battle Creek Central 61, Stevensville Lakeshore 47

Big Rapids 55, Lakeview 41

Birmingham Brother Rice 71, Southfield Christian 69, OT

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Adrian 61, Monroe Jefferson 45

Allen Park 62, Allen Park Inter-City Baptist 37

Allen Park Cabrini 63, Austin Catholic 18

Alma 52, Frankenmuth 48

Almont 59, North Branch 50

Alpena 66, Tawas 44

Ann Arbor Rudolf Steiner 41, Westland Huron Valley Lutheran 34

Bad Axe 56, Saginaw Arts and Science 31

Battle Creek Pennfield 75, Jackson Lumen Christi 74, OT

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Adrian 61, Monroe Jefferson 45

Allen Park 62, Allen Park Inter-City Baptist 37

Alma 52, Frankenmuth 48

Almont 59, North Branch 50

Alpena 66, Tawas 44

Ann Arbor Rudolf Steiner 41, Westland Huron Valley Lutheran 34

Bad Axe 56, Saginaw Arts and Science 31

Battle Creek Pennfield 75, Jackson Lumen Christi 74, OT

Bay City Central 60, Midland Dow 59

Beal City 51, Lake City 29

Bear Lake 77, Mesick 48

Big Rapids Crossroads Charter Academy 76, Mason County Eastern 35

ALPENA, Mich. (AP) — Since 2013, there have been five school shootings in the state of Michigan during which someone has been injured or died as a result of a gunshot, according to Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund. That website states that there have been 370 incidents of gunfire on school grounds in the country since 2013.

Some local school districts have been updating their security measures in every way possible to prevent the possibility of such an incident from happening.

ESCANABA, Mich. (AP) — Bay De Noc Community College in Escanaba will share $620,000 in Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration grants with 19 other organizations.

The state Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs says the school in Michigan's Upper Peninsula will use the funds to develop and present tree trimming and chain saw training to reduce workplace injuries in forest, landscaping and clearing industries.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A more than 60-foot (18-meter) spruce from the northeastern Lower Peninsula has been selected as Michigan's official 2018 Christmas tree.

The tree from Alpena will be cut down Oct. 25 and displayed outside the state Capitol building. It's being donated by Mike and Shelly Catto.

It's the second state tree to come from Alpena — the first was in 1989. Last year's tree was harvested in Menominee County's Stephenson in the Upper Peninsula.

POSEN, Mich. (AP) — A woman will mark her 100th birthday on Sunday by participating in a parade at a popular small-town festival in northern Michigan.

Barb Carlson has a recipe for a long life: Eat well, stay busy — and mind your own business. She tells The Alpena News that she "never dreamed" she would live for a century.

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Adrian Madison 35, Jackson East Jackson 14

Allen Park Cabrini 36, Marine City Cardinal Mooney 6

ALPENA, Mich. (AP) — Congress is considering legislation that would allow government agencies to resume killing double-crested cormorants, which feast on fish in the Great Lakes and elsewhere.

A federal judge in 2016 ordered a halt to lethal control measures against the birds, saying the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hadn't done enough research to determine whether further efforts were needed.

ALPENA, Mich. (AP) — Tests showed that well water near a Michigan Air National Guard combat training center doesn't have dangerous levels of chemical contaminants, Air Force officials said.

The Air Force found that any perfluorinated chemicals, known as PFAS, found in wells at homes near the northern Michigan training site were at levels that don't exceed the Environmental Protection Agency's standards for safety.