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SMITHFIELD – A proposed policy on how local transgender students are treated in school has advocates for those students warning of dire consequences.

With the many housing projects discussed and in the works around Traverse City, we thought we’d look back on the long path to getting the city&rsq...

  Something is messing with our universe, and that something is the enduring mystery astronomers have dubbed dark energy –which comprises about two-thirds of the mass and energy in the universe. Determining how rapidly the universe is expanding is key to understanding our cosmic fate, but with more precise data has come a conundrum, reports the University of California Berkeley: “estimates based on measurements within our local universe don’t agree with extrapolations from the era shortl...

Subscribe PHOTO: NGC 1453, a giant elliptical galaxy situated in the constellation Eridanus, was one of 63 galaxies used to calculate the expansion rate of the local universe. Last year, the MASSIVE survey team determined that the galaxy is located 166 million light years from Earth and has a black hole at its center with a mass nearly 3 billion times that of the sun. (Photo courtesy of the Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey) Determining how rapidly the universe is expanding is key to understanding ...

NGC 1453, a giant elliptical galaxy situated in the constellation Eridanus, was one of 63 galaxies used to calculate the expansion rate of the local...

The Erie Catholic School System, made up of six elementary schools in Erie County, is unexpectedly looking for a new chief administrator. Damon Finazzo, the president of the 2,025-student Erie Catholic School System since 2017, has resigned due to "personal reasons," the chairman of the school system said in a letter to families on Wednesday. Finazzos resignation was effective immediately, according to the letter, signed by John Blakeslee. He wrote that the development is "an unexpected chang...