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Today voters will make a number of decisions on ballot proposals, state and local representatives, and local issues. Throughout the copper country, poll workers have had weeks worth of training programs, and preparation meetings in order to get ready for the big day. One of the largest polling stations in …

It’s election day, and polls will be open from 7:00 this morning until 8:00 this evening for voters who haven’t already cast absentee ballots. This article highlights contested races and proposals only. To see what is on your specific ballot, including all entries, click here. Statewide… Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer …

Baraga County Sheriff’s deputies and corrections officers have a new contract. The county commission approved the three-year pact at its meeting Monday night. Employees will receive an immediate $2.00 per hour raise, but will get no more increases through the end of the contract. In other action, the board…• Renewed …

The identities of the women killed in Friday’s car crash in Chassell have been released by the Houghton County Sheriff’s Department. Officials say they are 35-year-old Jennifer Rajala of Covington, and 30-year-old Lacey Rajala of Chassell. They were passengers in a vehicle that investigators say blew past the stop sign …

A Pelkie man has been arrested on charges that he has been importing drugs into Baraga County. Detectives from the Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement Team took the 55-year-old into custody Saturday at a traffic stop near Covington, while he was traveling back to the Copper Country from Milwaukee. The arrest …

Winter is coming, and Michigan department of health and human services has encouraged residents to check service on their home’s carbon monoxide detectors. It can be fairly easy to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning with a few easy steps. Carbon Monoxide is a gas that forms when fossil fuels such as …

Twelve Michigan Tech Huskies are currently half way around the globe on a special trip. For another week Michigan Tech Chemistry Professor Sarah Green and her students are attending the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, for COP27. More than 35,000 participants are attending the …

The Baraga County Commission will hold its monthly meeting tonight – a week early, to avoid conflict with the firearm deer hunting season.  The agenda includes consideration of a new contract with Tri-County Public Defenders to represent indigent defendants, and discussion about union contracts with sheriff’s department employees. Tonight’s session …

A fundraising effort has begun to help a family whose Hancock restaurant was badly damaged by fire a week ago. The blaze at Gemignani’s Italian Restaurant is believed to have started in the restaurant kitchen in the early morning hours last Tuesday. A tenant in an upstairs apartment escaped safely, …

UPDATE – As of late Monday morning, we are informed that tickets to attend the dinner have sold out. Veterans Day is Friday, and Calumet will celebrate the 105th birthday of its historic high school Junior ROTC program. American Legion Post 61 member David Crowley says the program is believed …