MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – The Marquette County Sheriff’s Office is reporting the arrest of one of the suspects wanted in connection with a recent armed robbery of a business in Palmer. After releasing an update about two suspects in the case yesterday afternoon, deputies received an anonymous tip about one of [...]
Continue reading …MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – The 2012 firearm deer season wrapped up late last week, and the Department of Natural Resources says hunter reports from around the state have been mostly positive. Into the first few days of the firearm season, the number of individuals that purchased a deer license was up [...]
Continue reading …MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – 110th District State Representative Matt Huuki participated in a bill-signing ceremony with Governor Rick Snyder for his new law to better protect children and senior citizens by allowing Michigan’s public transit service providers to perform full background checks on prospective drivers. Huuki’s legislation allows private and public [...]
Continue reading …After winning the Division 7 State Finals, the Sports Illustrated “Underdog” contest and raising an additional $3,200, the entire Ishpeming Hematites football team is in New York City! They are having fun at Rockefeller Plaza and sending Great Lakes Radio the pictures! Go to wkqsfm.com/featured/the-sunny-morning-show/17058/dean-dompierre-calls-ishpeming-hematites-update-york-city/ for an interview with Dean Dompierre.
Continue reading …MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – The Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn one of its formal objections to a controversial road project in Marquette County. The EPA sent the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality a letter this week withdrawing an earlier objection about the assessment of possible alternatives to the County Road 595 [...]
Continue reading …MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – Ishpeming City Police responded to a four-vehicle traffic accident late yesterday afternoon that injured three people. The accident happened around 4:45 p.m. yesterday at US-41 and Lakeshore when a westbound 2000 Buick LeSabre, driven by a 24-year-old South Range woman, ran a red light on US-41 and [...]
Continue reading …MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – The Michigan Legislature appears poised to approve a measure allowing for limited hunting of gray wolves in the state. The measure establishes wolves as a game animal, and gives the Michigan Natural Resources Commission the power to create a wolf hunting season, if it so chooses. Some [...]
Continue reading …MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – This is National Influenza Vaccination Week and the Michigan Department of Community Health is recommending that everyone in Michigan 6 months and older get a flu shot. Health officials say national estimates show roughly 42 percent of people over the age of six months got a flu [...]
Continue reading …MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – State Police are looking for an Upper Peninsula couple accused of passing bad checks in the Calumet area. 32-year-old Christina Gagnon of Calumet and 40-year old Raymond Ojala Junior of Hubbell are being sought for questioning in the ongoing criminal investigation. The two were last seen on [...]
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