Midland News

Members of the question-and-answer site Quora submitted their picks for the smartest moves in business.

Michigan entrepreneurs, in a survey from Thumbtrack.com, gave the state a "D" grade for small business friendliness and ranked southeast lower Michigan the worst in the state, but some Great Lakes Bay Region business owners disagree.

A ceremony was held Friday for the burial of the remains at the Nibokaan Ancestral Cemetery on the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe reservation, which is near Mount Pleasant.

The Midtown Men deliver their hits from "Jersey Boys" and other icons of the '60s on May 30 with a style reminiscent of Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack.

A Midland man police say targeted the wrong mobile home and set fire to it has had his date with a jury adjourned.

The races started and finished at the Dow Diamond in Midland, but runners did have a different scene this year.

Midland Public Services Director Karen Murphy says "there's a lot of money involved in making" the repairs, and officials are doing the best they "can to make them." For instance, Murphy says a pedestrian bridge at City Forest was damaged by the April flood and remains closed while the city works with a consultant on repair options.

Members of the Saginaw-Tittabawassee Rivers Contamination Community Advisory Group met at Saginaw Valley State University Monday, May 20, to discuss the dioxin cleanup in the Saginaw and Tittabawassee rivers and Saginaw Bay.

A Midland County man is dead after crashing his all-terrain vehicle into a truck.

Jay Michaud, a graduate student at Central Michigan University; Matthew Benkert of Hemlock and Calla Ringgenberg of Clare are recipients of the 2013 Kent S. Dennis Memorial Scholarship, awarded through the Saginaw Valley Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

An insightful art exhibit is capturing the attention of visitors and patients to the Healing Arts Gallery at MidMichigan Medical Center-Midland. The exhibit , entitled "Lilly Oncology on Canvas , " is a biennial art competition and exhibition that honors the journeys people face when confronted with a cancer diagnosis.

Two brothers charged with illegally selling medical marijuana from their Bay City compassion club have to wait a while longer to see if a judge will dismiss the cases against them.

Influx of Midland County Jail inmates from Genesee County and other spots has Midland County Sheriff calling for increased staffing, report says MIDLAND COUNTY, MI -- The Midland County Sheriff says he needs more staffing at the jail because of an increase of inmates, including nearly four dozen from Genesee County, according to a report in the ... (more)

A beer developed to celebrate a Michigan minor league baseball team has been cut from the team's home field beverage offerings.

Viktor Pangburn, 5, of Midland looks at a Lego display at "Icons of the Sky: LEGO Architecture of Adam Reed Tucker" at Midland's Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art on Tuesday, May 14.

Viktor Pangburn, 5, of Midland looks at a Lego display at "Icons of the Sky: LEGO Architecture of Adam Reed Tucker" at Midland's Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art on Tuesday, May 14.

Former Harrington Elementary School custodians Vonnie Green, left, and Walter Moull set up desks in a classroom at the school.

The event starts at 12 p.m. at the Midland Law Enforcement Center, 2727 Rodd, according to the Midland Police Department.

The trial is looming for two brothers facing 16 criminal charges in connection with the operation of a Bay City medical marijuana compassion club, but their attorney is hoping to have the cases dismissed before a jury gets involved.

Orchard owners in the Great Lakes Bay Region are breathing sighs of relief after an anticipated "hard freeze" left their apple trees intact.