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A local history expert is being tapped by Governor Rick Snyder for a spot on the State Historical Records Advisory Board. Hancock resident Lindsay Hiltunen is the university archivist for Michigan Tech Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections. She was recently awarded the Charles Follo Award for excellence in preservation …

Click on the blue links for more details. High School The Calumet Copper Kings will face Traverse City St. Francis Saturday at 1:00 in the Division Six district football final. The game will be played at Thirlby Field in Traverse City. Pregame coverage will begin at 12:35 on KBear 102.3 …

Click on the blue links for more details. High School The Calumet Copper Kings will face Traverse City St. Francis in the Division Six district final game next weekend. St. Francis defeated Elk Rapids 56-17 in their district semifinal yesterday. Calumet advanced with a 6-0 victory over Westwood Friday night. …

Copper Mountain Conference champion Lake Linden-Hubbell leads the 2018 All-Conference selections. Mariah Willmer of the Lakes was named the Most Valuable Player. Teammate Joslyn Perala was honored as Defensive Player of the Year, and Mandy Perreault was named Coach of the Year. The All-Conference Elite Team includes Mariah Willmer and Perala from Lake …

Click on the blue links for more details. High School The Calumet Copper Kings opened the high school football Division Six playoffs last night with a heartstopping 6-0 win over the Westwood Patriots. The contest was scoreless until the final play of the third quarter, when Matt Ojala made a …

The streets in Houghton and Calumet will be filled with super heroes and goblins on this busy pre-Halloween weekend. The 10th annual Treat Street takes place in Houghton from 4-6pm tomorrow.  Downtown businesses will be handing out treats, there will be a pumpkin carving and decorating contest, a homemade costume …

Baraga County Communities That Care is working with the Ontonagon and Marquette County CTC’s to host a presentation on making healthy choices. Author and illustrator Robb N. Johnston will present his book “Craves” to 2nd through 4th grade students at both Baraga and L’Anse Schools on November 6th along with …

A game camera set up as part of an ongoing state deer movement study has captured images of a cougar in Gogebic County, about 9 miles north of Ironwood. The images were reviewed and verified by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ cougar team. Since 2008, the DNR has confirmed …

HOUGHTON, MICH- The National Park Service will be relocating wolves from Ontario to Isle Royale this winter.  Isle Royale and their partners successfully relocated 4 wolves from Minnesota to the park this fall in the first phase of an effort to restore predator prey dynamics to the island ecosystem.  The support …

Click on the blue links for more details. High School The regular high school volleyball season wrapped up last night… – Dollar Bay-Tamarack City and Ewen-Trout Creek at Lake Linden-Hubbell – not reported. – Chassell v Baraga – not reported. – L’Anse swept Ontonagon 3-0 (25-12, 25-21, 25-22). . – …