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Congressman Jack Bergman has secured a third term in the U.S. House, defeating Democratic challenger Dana Ferguson and Libertarian Ben Boren in the race to represent Michigan’s [...]

ALPENA, Mich. (Press release/WLUC) – A bipartisan bill, with support from Congressman Jack Bergman (R-MI), Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), and Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), has been signed [...]

TO THE EDITOR: This is certainly a big year in Michigan politics, and once again the voters of northern Michigan have a clear choice to make when it comes to our representative in Washington D.C. [...]

WASHINGTON (WBUP) –A congressman from Michigan was put on a national task force to raise awareness and support efforts to end Veteran suicide. Rep. Jack Bergman (R-MI 1st District) will join VA [...]

Representative Jack Bergman was in Hancock yesterday, on a Trump campaign bus, traveling across the U.P. “Forty Five days til the election and I was there at a gathering this morning just up the [...]

OLD MISSION — Cherries might seem like a big deal in northwest Michigan, especially to growers who have weather, global competition and now pandemic restrictions to contend with. But Isaiah [...]

From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, federal, state and local governments have been faced with hard — if not impossible — decisions affecting lives and livelihoods of nearly every American. [...]

Continuing his efforts to safeguard the future of commerce on the Great Lakes, Michigan Representative Jack Bergman is proposing a new policy to ensure baseline levels of funding for the [...]

TRAVERSE CITY — The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday announced it will buy $20 million worth of U.S. tart cherries during the third quarter of 2020 for distribution to communities across [...]

From Carol Pilot, Iron Mountain: This was written by a special friend of mine, Peggy Merrill. I thank her for putting the story into words — On March 2, Bruce Martin was admitted to St. Mary’s [...]

Washington-‘Hedging support for extremists to the United States cannot and will not be tolerated’ Reps. Jack Bergman, R-Mich., Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, [...]

MACKINAC COUNTY, Mich. (WLUC) – The Conservation Fund, in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), announced the addition of 11.25 acres of shoreline habitat to Michigan’s Hiawatha [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WLUC) – Congressman Jack Bergman has announced his support of a bipartisan bill to pay U.S. Coast Guard members during the partial government shutdown. H.R. 367, the Pay [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WLUC) – Congressman Jack Bergman (R-Michigan’s First District), has announced that he will be donating his pay accrued during the government shutdown to local [...]

WASHINGTON D.C., (WLUC)- At the swearing in of the House in Washington, Republican Congressman Jack Bergman spoke about the Soo Locks and a potential timeline for the project to begin. More money [...]

CHIPPEWA COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has submitted its work plan for 2019 to Congress. According to the Corps, the plan includes $32 million as an initial [...]

Important improvements to the Soo Locks became closer to reality this week after President Donald Trump authorized funding for the $922 million project. And, we have our former state senator, [...]

“After spending all that money in the Middle East can you imagine, we can’t fix a lock? We’ll get it fixed,” President Trump said, during his trip to Michigan last April. Now a new lock in Sault [...]

WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste Political Action Committee (CCAGW PAC) announced its endorsement of five Michigan candidates: Reps. [...]

NEGAUNEE TOWNSHIP, MIch. (WLUC) – Congressman Jack Bergman met with local business owners and managers during a tour of Miller-Bradford & Risberg Inc. in Negaunee Township on Tuesday. [...]

Congressman Jack Bergman was honored in Traverse City Tuesday for his work to help protect the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes Maritime Task Force presented Bergman with the 2018 Great Lakes [...]

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday that is finally getting the ball rolling on adding a new lock to the Soo. Legislators want to build a second lock to handle Great [...]

MANISTIQUE, Mich. (WLUC)- Michigan politicians visited the moving wall Vietnam memorial in Manistique Saturday. The representatives came to speak about the walls significance. Congressman Jack [...]

MICHIGAN (WPBN/WGTU) — Areas in Houghton, Alger and Manistee counties will be seeing some major funding soon. The USDA Rural Development is investing in four water infrastructure projects, [...]

WASHINGTON — It’s a busy life for a congressman who is up for re-election in November, but it wasn’t too busy for U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Watersmeet, to jump on a plane and head to [...]

Washington – -(Ammoland.com)- Recently, House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman (R-Mich.) introduced H.R. 6013, the Migratory Bird Framework [...]

(WLUK) — Upper Michigan’s congressional delegation is asking President Donald Trump to approve Lt. Gov. Brian Calley’s request for a major disaster declaration following flash [...]

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (WPBN/WGTU) — The effort to build a new lock at the Soo Locks is one step closer to moving forward after a new study done by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The [...]

HOUGHTON, Mich. (WLUC) – Governor Rick Snyder officially declared a state of disaster for Houghton and Menominee Counties Monday, June 18. The declaration comes during beginning cleanup of [...]

SAULT STE. MARIE — More than $65 million earmarked for Eastern Upper Peninsula projects has been allocated to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District for fiscal year 2018 under the [...]