The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States takes place Friday and many Copper Country students will be there to see it. Middle and high school students from Hancock, Chassell, Dollar Bay-Tamarack and Ontonagon schools left Tuesday night on buses for Washington D.C. They are …

If you don’t return your library materials on time, you get charged a small fine. Don’t return them for a long time or have a lot of overdue items–and that fine can add up. The Portage Lake District Library in Houghton is once again given patrons a chance to pay …

Governor Rick Snyder touted the state’s economy during his 7th State of the State address Tuesday night. He says since 2010, 500,000 jobs have been created and unemployment is at the lowest rate in 15 years. SNYDER SOS-A2(MNN) Snyder says, when it comes to crime, Detroit, Flint and Saginaw have seen a …

GM’s investing a billion dollars in its U.S. plants and adding 7,000 jobs. More from AutoBeat Reporter Jeff Gilbert. GM I

A metal stent is often used to prop open a blocked heart artery. But now patients have a new option–a dissolving stent called Absorb is helping to treat blocked coronary arteries that can lead to chest pain and heart attacks. Cardiologist Dr. Timothy Logan. #1 stent

Have you bought milk in Michigan in the past 14 years? Well, you may be owed a refund. Dairy producers settled a class action lawsuit for $52 million. That suit accused them of prematurely slaughtering about half a million cows to raise the cost of milk by lowering the supply. …

Michigan Department of Natural Resources conservation officer Mike Evink rescued a man this week in Schoolcraft County who was overcome with carbon monoxide while trying to save a homeowner. The incident occurred at 3:43 p.m. Wednesday when Evink was dispatched to a home along Hutt Lake Drive in Schoolcraft County. …

MARQUETTE — A Northern Michigan University student passed away in his dorm room Tuesday morning. In a statement, NMU President Dr. Fritz Erickson announced that Sophomore Anthony Herbert of Lapeer, Mich., passed away suddenly in his residence hall room. “Anthony was a construction management major and a member of the …

On this week’s Copper Country Today, Rick Allen talks State Representative Scott Dianda. In the second segment, Rick is joined by Houghton City Manager Eric Waara. Brought to you by the Copper Country Education Association, the Copper Country Veterinary Clinic and Lassila Insurance of Mohawk.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has announced a March 1 deadline to apply for a total of $100,000 in deer habitat improvement grant funding in the Upper Peninsula. The Deer Habitat Improvement Partnership Initiative is a competitive grant program designed to enhance deer habitat on non-state lands in the …