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Look for some traffic delays over the next few weeks in Baraga County, as a highway paving project begins today. The Michigan Department of Transportation will mill and resurface US-41 from the Falls River in L’Anse to the Beartown Road/Jurmu Road intersection north of Baraga. M-38 will also be resurfaced …

The Village of Calumet will hold two public hearings Monday night. The session will begin online at 5:30.  The first hearing will address proposed revisions in the village’s zoning ordinance, and will be conducted by the planning commission. See the proposed ordinance here. The second hearing will deal with the …

From Michigan Technological University: Michigan Tech’s Student Development Complex (SDC) will reopen to faculty/staff members as well as current students on Monday, August 17. A team of staff from Recreation has continually updated its reopening plan since the July 13 soft opening to students. The facility is implementing an enhanced …

Updated Monday, August 17: The victim has been identified as Ryan Kohnhorst, of Merrill, Wisconsin. -0- A man has died after apparently falling from the Presque Isle falls in Gogebic County. Around 8:30 Friday evening, a 9-1-1 caller told a state police dispatcher that the man had fallen from the falls …

Lake Superior may not yet have hit its high point for the summer. The latest projection from the Army Corps of Engineers anticipates Lakes Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario have peaked for the season, and have begun their typical seasonal declines. Lake Superior, however, is not expected to turn the …

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has handed out $1.7 million in grants to build charging stations for electric vehicles. None of the grants came to the Copper Country, and only one to the Upper Peninsula, for the City of Norway. Applicants can receive up to $70,000 …

What was expected to be an unopposed re-election bid for Houghton County Sheriff Brian McLean in November has turned into a three-man race. McLean defeated challenger Steve Laux in the recent Republican primary. A write-in candidate in the Democratic primary, Ann Newcombe, will not be on the November ballot. She …

Sign-up is underway for the community scavenger hunt that will take the place of this year’s Parade of Nations and Multicultural Festival. Organizers are looking for “Hide Teams.” Hide Teams will create clues to a particular country or cultural heritage and hiding places for those clues. The clues can be …

The increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases in the western Upper Peninsula continues, with the focus still on Wisconsin border communities. Since Monday, Gogebic County has added seven new cases, to bring its total to 122. Three more confirmed cases in Ontonagon County have increased its total to 17. Houghton County …

The Laurium Fire Department is getting more than a half-million dollars from the federal government. The $525,142 will be used to purchase equipment, and provide training. It comes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Assistance to Firefighters Grants program.