MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – A former Upper Peninsula businessman has been sentenced in Houghton County Circuit Court. Michael Jestila, 46,  pled guilty to four counts of Delivery of a Controlled Substance to a Minor. He received 365 days in jail with credit for 114 already served on each of the four [...]

MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – A Dickinson County man has been arraigned on marijuana charges. Mark Baker, a 52–year–old Channing man,  was arraigned in Dickinson County District Court on a charge of Delivery and Manufacture of five to 45 kilograms of marijuana, which carries a maximum penalty of seven years in prison. [...]

MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News)  -  Marquette County is slated to receive receive $400,000 in federal assessment funding for clean up of brownfield sites. Officials say the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Grant will help Marquette County assess contaminated sites so they can be cleaned up for future re-use. They add the grant will [...]

MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News)  -  The U.P. Regional Blood Center, a service of Marquette General Hospital, is currently in critical need of O-negative, A-negative and B-negative types of blood throughout the Upper Peninsula. You can donate in Marquette at the U.P. Regional Blood Center at 427 West College Avenue, adjacent to Marquette [...]

MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News)  -  The Downtown Marquette Farmers Market’s Grand Opening is coming up this weekend. The Market will open on Saturday, rain or shine, and will run from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m., every Saturday through October 26, at the Marquette Commons on South Third Street. Organizers say this year’s [...]

MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – A pair of Great Lakes restoration projects by Michigan Technological University researchers have been selected for funding by the University of Michigan Water Center. Fifty-four research teams from universities submitted proposals for nearly $570,000 in total funding. One project received a $50,000 grant to study the impact [...]

MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) –The former principal of Munising Baptist School has waived his arraignment. 35-year-old Benjamin David Franklin II appeared in Alger County Circuit Court in Munising today. Franklin was arrested in March on one count of criminal sexual conduct in the third degree. Two additional charges of third degree CSC [...]

MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) –The Department of Natural Resources says its Lake Superior research vessel is back on the water for the season. The vessel “Lake Char” is one of four DNR vessels conducting annual surveys of Great Lakes fish populations. The DNR says the vessels are critical in their effort to [...]

MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) –Today is the day a special enforcement campaign begins to make sure Michigan motorists are “buckled up” through the Memorial Day holiday. Officers from 155 police agencies in 26 Michigan counties will join the national “Click It Or Ticket” effort for the next two weeks, with a goal [...]

MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) –M-DOT says a main roadway in the Copper Country will have some affected traffic due to a culvert replacement that got underway this morning. M-203 in Houghton County, about 1 mile west of Calumet, has been reduced to one lane of alternating traffic under flag control for today [...]