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Hancock-Registration is open for the 32nd annual Summer Arts Camp at the Copper Country Community Arts Center. Camp is five exciting days of art making and exploration for children entering 3rd-6th grades. This year’s Summer Arts Camp theme is “Studio Arts.” Camp Coordinator Melissa Hronkin, along with guest artists, will …

Just follow the detour signs. Construction on Lakeshore Drive in Downtown Houghton has reached Isle Royal Street. City officials say the contractor may need to block Isle Royal at Shelden Avenue to through traffic today to put in the necessary new water connections up by the crosswalk at Shelden. There …

LAURIUM, Mich. – Aspirus Keweenaw Hospital in Laurium is the recipient of four national Excellence in Healthcare Awards from industry leading research-marketing firm, Professional Research Consultants (PRC). This is the second consecutive year that Aspirus Keweenaw has earned the awards for quality and patient satisfaction. The awards are based on …

What are the two highest priorities when it comes to risk factors facing local youth? Houghton and Keweenaw Counties Communities That Care would like the public to help answer that question. Five risk factors were recently identified in a Youth Survey that can lead to problem behaviors such as substance …

A case against a South Range man facing several drug charges continues. 24-year-old Charles Lester Knuckles appeared in Houghton County Circuit Court Wednesday for an arraignment. Knuckles is facing nine felonies–including operating a drug house, delivering contraband on jail property, and delivery of a controlled substance within 1000 feet of …

Washington D.C.– U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Representative Jack Bergman, U.S. Senator Gary Peters, and Representatives Sandy Levin, Fred Upton, Bill Huizenga, Tim Walberg, Dan Kildee, Mike Bishop, Debbie Dingell, Brenda Lawrence, John Moolenaar, Dave Trott, and Paul Mitchell today introduced the bipartisan Soo Locks Modernization Act. The legislation authorizes the …

Musical Mondays Series of five great shows begins on June 12th with bluegrass phenomenon, Billy Strings. Some people are just born to play music – such is the case for Strings. His dad bought him a guitar at four years old and by age five Billy started accompanying his father, …

A Houghton County man can’t wait to share his good fortune with his family after winning a $110,000 Fantasy 5 jackpot from the Michigan Lottery. The lucky player, who chose to remain anonymous, matched the numbers drawn on May 14 – 07-11-13-37-38 – to win the big prize. He bought …

Chassell residents will be allowed to continue using the Portage Lake District Library–at least for now. Voters approved a proposal to pull out of the library district last November, which would have been effective at the end of this year. But an agreement between the library and Chassell Township extends …

Syracuse, NY–Alex Nitz,  an alumnus of Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, who grew up in Houghton, Michigan located in the Upper Peninsula, has been instrumental in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)’s third detection of gravitational waves, demonstrating that a new window onto astronomy is fully open. Nitz, who earned …