Local News

The Portage Lake District Library serves the City of Houghton as well as the communities of Portage Township and Chassell Township. However, some Chassell residents want that association to end, along with the roughly two mills taxpayers pay on average to support the library. A ballot initiative to withdraw the …

Twenty students are taking part in a weeklong flight training program at Michigan Tech, one of the university’s Summer Youth Programs. Seventeen of the students are from South Korea, with the remaining three from the United States. The students will get a chance to fly a real plane, but first …