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Hancock’s Police department has received a grant from the Portage Health Auxiliary. The department is getting $6,552 to replace old AED’s and needed accessories. Police respond to many medical calls, and can often times be the first on scene. AED’s are used to quickly shock the heart, after someone suffers …

Keweenaw County has approved a special use permit for the new East Bluff Campground. East Bluff plans to set up 25 primitive campsites, along with a single privy and a hand pumped well. The privy will have a 12 watt solar light to help people see at night. The county …

The latest COVID-19 surge continues to push diagnoses up in the Copper Country, although numbers remain far below where they were early this year. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reports 82 new confirmed cases in Houghton, Keweenaw, Baraga and Ontonagon Counties in the past week. That’s 41 …

The Copper Country Intermediate School District Board was in a hiring mode at Tuesday’s meeting.  Directors approved staff members for the Summer Program for Students with Severe Disabilities, and for Camp Nesbit. They okayed extended school year staffers for the upcoming summer, and filled a number of open staff positions.  …

As the Lake Superior fishing season opens, anglers are being asked to keep an eye out for marked splake. Splake are a hybrid cross between lake trout and brook trout. They have been stocked in Lake Superior by the Department of Natural Resources since 1971, particularly in Copper Harbor, Keweenaw …

The Copper Country Community Arts Center has issued a call for artwork based on the iconic Houghton-Hancock Bridge.  The Lift Bridge will be honored during Bridgefest this year as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. In recognition, the Arts Center plans a community exhibition of art inspired by the bridge.  …

Last Saturday A Hazel Park man was arrested by Houghton County Sheriff after a narcotic trafficking stop. During the investigation deputies executed a search warrant on the vehicle and a residence in Dollar Bay. The sheriff sized 3.8 ounces in crystal methamphetamine, a firearm, and several items used for drug …

May is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s month. Tomorrow evening on Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College’s campus the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and the Upper Peninsula Human Trafficking Task Force will show the film Ring of Silence. The movie depicts the story of Michigan high school teens who became victims …

Houghton County District Two will finally get a new commissioner today, when Kevin Codere takes the oath of office. Codere will serve through the end of the year, filling out the term left vacant when Albert Koskela died April 24th. State law requires that empty county board seats be filled …

Pam Que has been named President Pro-Tem of the Calumet village council. At last night’s meeting, the village council tapped Que to fill the Downtown Development Authority’s seat on the Historic District Commission, as well. She will also join Village Manager Amber Goodman on the Calumet Theatre Lease Committee. That …