ESCANABA — After months of bed bug complaints, management at the Harbor Tower Apartments has secured a new pest control company to try to get rid of the problem at the subsidized housing complex in Escanaba. An Orkin affiliate in Green Bay has been hired to do the job, particularly ...

(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) LANSING — Michigan’s minimum wage went up by $1.25 an hour Thursday under a new state law that sped up planned base rate increases but scaled ...

ST. IGNACE — A 61-year-old man from downstate Michigan died Saturday afternoon in a snowmobile crash in Mackinac County. Troopers from the Michigan State Police St. Ignace Post were called just before 1 p.m. Saturday to Bay City Lake Road near Trail 47 in Clark Township, according to an MSP ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Hours after an audacious military operation that plucked leader Nicolás Maduro from power and removed him from the country, President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States would run Venezuela at least temporarily and tap its vast oil reserves to sell to ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — Winter skies over Lake Antoine in Iron Mountain will come alive with color and motion Saturday, Jan. 10, for Kites Over Awesome Lake Antoine, or KOALA. Lake Antoine Park Partners will host its fifth-annual event from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Central time at the park. The four-hour ...

An emerging technology in lumber could have implications for the forestry industry. Mass timber is a process of strengthening wood, typically by gluing panels together to create dense layers of wood called cross-laminated timber, or CLT. CLT is “essentially plywood on steroids,” said ...