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The Keweenaw Mountain Lodge will open for the 2017 season. At a special meeting Wednesday…the Keweenaw County Board of Commissioners voted 4-1 to fund the Copper Harbor resort, which could cost around $200,000 for the year. Over 200 people packed the room at Horizons Alternative High School in Mohawk for …

Dean L. Johnson, currently the James and Dolores Trethewey APMP professor and founding director of the Applied Portfolio Management Program, has been named Dean of the School of Business and Economics at Michigan Technological University. The announcement was made by Jackie Huntoon provost and vice president of academic affairs. Johnson …

A Florida man indicted on numerous charges related to the illegal transfer of stolen property from an Upper Peninsula facility was arraigned Tuesday in Federal Court. Michael Donald Reid of Land O’ Lakes, Florida, is charged with 13 counts of interstate transportation of stolen property. According to court records, the charges …

A resolution dealing with parking on residential properties was approved at Wednesday’s Houghton City Council meeting. Under the resolution, off-street parking has to be either on the lot or within 400 feet of the building it is intended to serve. Also in the resolution were incentives for property owners of …

Click on the highlighted scores for more game details. High School In high school hockey tonight… – Jeffers entertains Kingsford. – L’Anse travels to Negaunee. In girls’ basketball this evening… – Baraga welcomes Ewen-Trout Creek. – Lake Linden-Hubbell travels to L’Anse. NMU Both Northern Michigan University basketball teams entertain Walsh …

Things are back to normal at Houghton Elementary School, but that wasn’t the case Monday morning. That’s when 30-year-old Niles Nathan Rothenberger of Atlantic Mine was arrested after police received reports that he was acting suspicious. Their investigation allegedly discovered 3.5 grams of marijuana in his vehicle along with a …

Michigan Tech’s Tech Theatre Company is holding public auditions over the next two nights for the play, Sexual Perversity in Chicago. Auditions will be held tonight and tomorrow in the McArdle Theatre at 7:00 pm. Those wishing to be considered should arrive no later than 6:45. There will be call backs …

This past summer, 11 high school interns from Calumet and Houghton joined professionals at Michigan Tech and the Keweenaw National Historical Park to use the Geographic Information System to explore our region’s past. As a part of GRACE (GIS Resources and Applications for Career Education Project), students were engaged in …

The Keweenaw County Board of Commissioners is holding a special meeting tonight to discuss the future of the Keweenaw Mountain Lodge. The meeting will be held at the Horizons School in Mohawk starting at 6pm. At issue is the question of whether the Board should loan $200,000 to the Lodge …

For a fourth consecutive term, the U.P.’s voice in Washington will be a Republican. Jack Bergman defeated Lon Johnson to become the first congressional district’s representative in D.C. Bergman will be succeeding Dan Benishek, who decided to retire after three terms in office. Benishek says he has had some ‘great …