Tawas City News

Sometimes, they go home really tired. But almost always, the volunteers at Abingdon's Johnston Memorial Hospital said, they go home believing they've made a difference.

Authorities said a body found Thursday along the shores of Lake Huron in East Tawas is that of an elderly woman who disappeared Monday.

Most Michigan state government offices, including local Secretary of State and MichiganWorks! offices, will be closed due to the state budget crisis on the following days: Vital public health and safety services like State Police road patrols, correctional facilities, psychiatric hospitals, veteran's homes and youth facilities will not be impacted.

June 18, 2009 - Comments F How bad was the Month of MAY for Michigan?A After seeing April leap to 12.9% unemployment you'd probably guess somewhere around 13.3% unemployment or an increase of +.4%.A You would be wrong by +.8%. Michigan's unemployment level has now escalated from a Depression to a level best described now as a "State of Emergency."A ...

With Michigan staring at another gaping budget hole next year, there's only one question: Will we raise taxes again? You betcha.

U.S. scientists say they have found evidence of human activity on a 9,000-year-old land bridge now located more than 100-feet deep in Lake Huron.

Story updated at 8 a.m. Deputies have released Thomas Township Trustee Timothy Ader from the Iosco County Jail after prosecutors charged him with first-degree criminal sexual conduct.

The search for a missing Tawas woman has ended. The body of 81-year-old Emma Ruth Nichols was found today just before 5 p.m. Thursday, according to Iosco County Central Dispatch.

Tawas police are asking for the public's help as they search for an 81-year-old woman.

Police in Midland and Iosco counties were investigating crashes that left two people dead Wednesday.

Michigan's Summer Free Fishing Weekend is scheduled for June 13-14. On that weekend, residents and non-residents can fish without a license , though all other fishing regulations apply, a state Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman said in a news release.

A third Muskegon County resident has tested positive for the H1N1 flu virus, county health officials confirmed Thursday.

A new name for Detroit's weakened auto giant GM is making the rounds, sometimes with irony, sometimes with dread, suggested by the deepest Washington industrial intervention in a half-century. The Obama administration is planting itself at the wheel of General Motors with a major ownership stake - and all that goes with it for the U.S. taxpayer.

May is Older Americans Month, a great time to bring attention to the issues that impact older adults and create community-wide opportunities to help older Americans improve their quality of life.

Thanks once again to all the generous people who donated more than $500 for poppies this month of May.

Michigan officials are hoping to double the amount of fish-gulping cormorants they can shoot and kill in the Great Lakes.

As a clarification to the article on medical marijuana in the VA, it is important for veteran patients and visitors of the VA medical center in Saginaw and community based outpatient clinics in Alpena, Clare, Gaylord, Oscoda and Traverse City to understand how the new law regarding the use of medical marijuana will be handled by VA medical center ...

Michigan officials anticipate they soon will get about $13 million from the federal stimulus program to boost rural passenger transportation projects in the state.

During the past several years I've heard all kinds of politicians here in Michigan from the governor to the mayor bleat loudly about all the jobs created because of tax abatements.

Greed, we are agreed, is bad. It also is strange. It has long been included among the Seven Deadly Sins, which suggests that it is a universal and perennial facet of the human fabric.