Marquette County has approved an agreement to create a regional 911 dispatch authority for the entire Upper Peninsula.

Aspirus officials signed an affiliation agreement in which Aspirus will become co-owner of Keweenaw Memorial, which has more than 400 employees serving the Upper Peninsula.

An acidic odor prompted the evacuation of a building on the campus of Northern Michigan University Tuesday morning.

A Grand Rapids police officer was hit by a suspect's vehicle during a traffic stop.

Police say they've found suspected marijuana plants at a University of Michigan botanical gardens for the second time this year.

Gov. Jennifer Granholm has asked President Bush to declare a major disaster for parts of Michigan following severe storms in mid-June.

Democratic Senator Dick Durbin says Republicans are putting seniors and military families at risk by siding with President Bush against a measure to prevent Medicare cuts.

The number of salmonella cases keeps growing. The government says the record outbreak has now sickened 943 people, putting at least 130 in hospitals.