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The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development filed new civil contempt charges against Café Rosetta this week. That culminated in a hearing Friday afternoon at Ingham County’s 30th Circuit Court. Judge Wanda Stokes levied another fine in the amount of $2,500 against the business. Co-Owner Amy Heikkinen appeared in …

UPDATE: Houghton County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that 73-year-old David Sundberg from Ahmeek died as a result of injuries sustained in Friday’s crash. Icy roads and speed combined to help cause a multivehicle crash on Memorial Drive near Canal Road Friday afternoon. Just after 12:30 PM, a 73-year-old man from …

The Western Upper Peninsula Health Department is warning people about a potential bottleneck for their second vaccine dose. Both shots need to be the same brand to be effective so for Copper Country residents who got the Pfizer vaccine the first time around, they must get that again. Same goes …

Employees from the Village of Baraga carefully placed a barrel onto the ice of Keweenaw Bay Thursday, kicking off the Chamber’s second annual ice melt competition. Rigged to the drum are three watches and a clock. They’ll stop working when it takes the plunge in the spring during the thaw. …

The Girl Scouts have been selling delicious treats like Thin Mints for over 100 years and they have seen their fair share of challenges during that time. Perhaps it is no surprise that troops today are proving resilient in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Marketing and Communications Director Missy …

The number of COVID-19 cases has increased in Houghton, Baraga, and Keweenaw Counties, but there is still a lot of good news to be found in Thursday’s update. A reminder that reported cases will now reflect the resumption of indoor dining that started on February 1st. The effect from high …

Two corrections officers are on the mend after a stabbing incident Wednesday afternoon. An inmate at the Baraga Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison, stabbed a guard in the neck from behind. That officer was able to react and help subdue the prisoner even after sustaining the injury. Another officer …

Now in its sixth year, the snow chapel at Saint Albert the Great on the campus of Michigan Tech has gone viral. Father Ben Hasse says he was speaking with a Twitter user who shared photos from last weekend’s service on the platform. After 4,000 retweets, the man is still …

Taps in some homes will be on for the next two months. The City of Houghton maintains a comprehensive list of service lines, those going from the road into a residence, that are prone to freezing. For customers at those homes, they will be receiving packets in the mail in …

Wednesday’s Houghton City Council meeting delved into an eclectic mix of subjects. The most pressing orders of business involved resolutions 2021-1772 through 2021-1775 which involved the paying of various bills. After those were approved unanimously, each council member was allowed to bring up items that they felt deserved discussion. City …