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High school students from across the Copper Country will be dancing for fun, and for a good cause, tomorrow night. The Copper Country Snow Ball semiformal has been put together by seniors at Houghton High School. Organizer Stella Wickstrom thinks it will be a unique opportunity for students… Most schools …

Approximately 150 soldiers assigned to the Michigan Army National Guard Headquarters 107th Engineer Battalion are preparing for an overseas deployment. The 107th is based in Ishpeming and Marquette. The unit is scheduled to spend up to a year in southwest Asia. They’ll be part of Operation Spartan Shield, with a …

A Michigan Tech fraternity donated nearly 2,000 dollars to Dial Help, from a recent philanthropy event. Yesterday the crisis hotline provider announced they received 1,916 dollars from the Sigma Pi Fraternity – Zeta Epsilon chapter. Sigma Pi explained that they wanted to help support Dial Help due to the growing …

One year later Isiah Strieter has been sentenced for his mother’s murder. Judge Charles Goodman presided over the courtroom in Houghton County 12th Circuit Court this morning. Strieter has been sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison for the murder of, Ashley Harvey, in January 2022. He is convicted …

Non-union employees of the City of Hancock will receive a four percent raise this year.  The increase was approved at last night’s city council meeting, and follows the city’s usual practice of keeping non-union pay increases in line with increases granted to union workers. The city will continue to make …

The first major sled dog race of the winter in the Upper Peninsula has been canceled.  Organizers of this weekend’s Tahquamenon Country race said recent warm temperatures have packed the generous snowfall received around Christmas into a glaze of ice, making trail conditions unsafe. Rescheduling the race was not feasible. …

A brand new month means a new Superior Educator. And the first local teacher recognized for the new year is Shari Tapani from Houghton Elementary School. Tapani was nominated by a student’s parent, who says that she is a one of a kind individual, and always puts her elementary kids …

The new year has been personified by an image of a baby for hundreds of years, dating back to ancient Greece. And the New Year is a wonderful time to celebrate new arrivals. With residents already having truned the page for the 2023 calendar, the Copper Country had to wait …

Should the Hancock City Council continue to meet twice each month? Council members will discuss returning to a once-per-month meeting schedule at their first meeting of 2023 this evening. Council rules require only one meeting per month – on the third Wednesday. The frequency was increased several years ago, as …

Upper Peninsula Power Company has announced its schedule for drawing down the water levels behind its dams. UPPCO is required by the federal government to reduce the water levels of its hydroelectric reservoirs during the winter, to make room for snow melt this spring. The Silver Lake, Hoist, Victoria Dam, …