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Click on the highlighted scores for more game details. High School The local high school hockey regular season wraps up tonight, as Calumet welcomes Marquette. The Copper Kings could clinch a share of the Great Lakes Conference championship with a victory. Our broadcast will begin around 6:40 on KBear 102.3 …

A Laurium woman is hospitalized after a head-on collision this morning in Portage Township. The accident happened on M-26 about 1/8 mile south of Green Acres Road around 8:15am when a Dodge sedan collided with a semi truck. A 40-year-old Laurium woman was driving northbound in the sedan when she crossed over the …

HANCOCK, Mich., Feb. 21, 2017 – The Portage Lake District Library (PLDL) received $3,555 from the Portage Health Foundation (PHF) to offer an expanded Market Bucks program for 2017’s Summer Reading Program participants. PLDL applied for funding under PHF’s food initiative RFP late last year.  The grant funding was a …

The jail population in Houghton County must be reduced and the sheriff is taking steps to see that it happens. Sheriff Brian McLean has invoked the Jail Overcrowding Emergency Powers Act to address overcrowding at the Houghton County Jail. McLean advised county officials that the population has remained at or …

A Hancock man will spend the next month in jail for a drug charge. 30-year-old Andrew Rohrer was sentenced Tuesday to 60 days in the Houghton County Jail for possession of a controlled substance. Rohrer was allegedly attacked by 28-year-old Joseph Schreiber in June 2016 when the two met to …

Careers in engineering may currently be male dominated, but that is changing. Middle school girls were shown how they can pursue an education in the STEM fields on the campus of Michigan Tech. 260 7th and 8th graders from 14 schools came out for Get WISE—Women in Science and Engineering. …

Click on the highlighted scores for more game details. High School In hockey last night, Houghton scored three goals in the first period, and cruised past Jeffers 5-1. Dawson McKay scored twice for the Gremlins. Carl Olson’s power-play goal was the Jets’ only score. The Gremlins finish the regular season …

Calumet senior center Hailey Wickstrom has been named the 2016-2017 WestPAC Girls Basketball Player of the Year. Houghton’s Julie Filpus was named Coach of the Year. Members of the All-Conference Teams were announced this morning. FIRST TEAM – Bailey Froberg, L’Anse senior guard – Emmy Kinner, West Iron County senior …

Residents in the Copper Country needing mental health or substance abuse counseling services can get help at a new location in Hancock. An open house for the Great Lakes Recovery Centers is being held Wednesday from 11am to 3pm in their new office. It’s on the third floor office area of …

The Hancock Volunteer Fire Department has a new piece of life-saving technology thanks to a donation from the Keweenaw Health Foundation. Keweenaw Health Foundation Executive Director Ed Jenich presented a new portable automatic external defibrillator to Second Assistant Fire Chief Neil Ahola on Thursday, February 16th at the fire department …