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The Upper Peninsula Power Company is ready to begin its winter drawdown of water levels at its hydroelectric facilities. In the Western Upper Peninsula, the Victoria Dam, Bond Falls and Lake Gogebic reservoirs will be lowered in January. The Prickett Dam reservoir will be lowered in February. The water levels …

Gasoline prices edged higher in the central Upper Peninsula, as the year-end holiday travel window passed its midpoint. AAA Michigan reports that the Marquette metro average has risen to $2.52 for a gallon of unleaded regular. That’s three cents higher than a week ago, three cents lower than a month …

One person is dead following a house fire in Sagola Township. Firefighters were called to the home on highway M-95 between Channing and Sagola just after 4:00 yesterday afternoon. They and state police troopers discovered the body inside the building after the blaze was extinguished. Another person escaped from the …

No injuries have been reported from a fire at an apartment building in Little Lake this morning. The five-unit building at the intersection of highway M-35 and Marquette County Road 456 was destroyed. M-35 was closed, as firefighters from numerous departments battled the blaze.

The glow was a little different last night, as cross country skiers gathered at the Maasto Hiihto Trail for the annual Luminary Ski. John Diebel from the Keweenaw Nordic Ski Club said organizers abandoned real candles, in favor of LED lights… It was the seventh year for the evening-after-Christmas event, …

The warmer than average temperatures we’ve been experiencing have prompted the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to issue a caution about ice conditions. The warning comes after a pickup truck broke through the ice on Big Shag Lake near Gwinn Sunday afternoon, and sank. No one was hurt, but conservation …

Declining enrollments have hit some of Michigan’s public universities hard, although Michigan Tech is holding its own. Figures released by the state and compiled by the MLive website show that the number of students at Michigan’s 15 public universities this past fall were more than 2 percent below 2018, and …

State crews are taking another run at opening up Grand Traverse Harbor, after storms this fall washed more stamp sands into it. Credit: Neil Harri. Dredging operations at the Grand Traverse Harbor in Houghton County are shown. Stamp sands, the gray-black beach sands, are being removed from the beach and …

Christmas Eve is bittersweet in the Copper Country. On one hand, we look forward to the holiday tomorrow. On the other hand, we remember what happened 106 years ago today. At the height of the 1913 Copper Strike, a Christmas party was held for the children of striking miners on …

As we head into the Christmas travel season, gasoline prices are marginally higher in our region than they were a week ago. AAA Michigan’s survey puts the coat of a gallon of unleaded regular in the Marquette metro area at $2.48 per gallon. That’s a penny higher than last week, …