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Tuesday’s Houghton County Board of Commissioners meeting focused on two main issues, says Chairman Al Koskela. The first was a lengthy discussion about election equipment. That comes on the heels of a successful audit, announced last week by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. The county is one of many across …

High School In hockey last night… • Houghton stopped Kingsford 6-1. • Calumet outscored Jeffers 7-1. Jackson Rilei had two goals and an assist. Noah Jukuri had a goal and two assists. Seth Coppo, Nolan Sturos, Paul Sturos and Ayden Williams each netted one for the Copper Kings, and Dean …

Last week, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced the completion of an unparalleled set of post-election audits. Keweenaw Report reached out to Houghton County Clerk Jennifer Kelly to find out what the process entailed locally. She says it was more involved than ever before. The first task to be completed …

Update: The preliminary injunction against Café Rosetta was dissolved by Judge Wanda Stokes of Michigan’s 30th Circuit Court Wednesday. Combined with the actions from the Western Upper Peninsula Health District and MDARD, that paves the way for the restaurant to reopen for business. Attorney David Kallman says Café Rosetta has …

A vehicle caught fire on Front Street in Hancock Monday evening while idling at the stop sign where M-26 intersects US-41 on the north end of the Portage Lake Lift Bridge. Hancock Police say no cause has been determined for the incident. An investigation by the owner’s auto insurance company …

The Village of L’Anse will try again to get some help for marina upgrades. At last night’s council meeting, manager Bob LaFave said the state funds are needed to build a wall that will help protect the facility from high Lake Superior water levels, and to replace the aging floating …

Since Friday there have been nine new COVID-19 cases in Houghton, Keweenaw, and Baraga Counties. The overall rate remains low even as the area has had to absorb the fallout from a potential super spreader event at a Calumet hockey tournament the final weekend of February. An additional 540 people …

Brad Dakota will join the Baraga County Board of Commissioners. Dakota was unanimously selected by the other members last night to fill the unexpired term of Will Wiggins. Wiggins was elected to represent the second district last November. He was forced to resign after learning that his position as a …

Friday afternoon, the Centers for Disease Control made public a study conducted by the department to quantify the effects of certain policies on COVID-19 transmission. Mask mandates were shown to curtail the growth in daily COVID-19 cases by 0.5% to 1.9% after they were implemented. Allowing restaurants to host dining …

Starting at 5 PM Thursday until 9 AM Tuesday, March 16th, the Michigan Secretary of State plans to be offline while systems are upgraded. The work will not include the voter registration system. A department press release promises that combines “tens of millions of driver and vehicle records into one …