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Nurses who recently completed a 48-hour strike against UP Health System-Marquette Saturday morning are asking for community support in their battle for a new contract. The nurses say they’re trying to use the negotiation to address low hospital staffing levels that could endanger patient safety. Hospital staff walked off the …

Nurses who recently completed a 48-hour strike against UP Health System-Marquette are asking for community support in their battle for a new contract. The nurses say they’re trying to use the negotiation to address low hospital staffing levels that could endanger patient safety. Hospital staff walked off the job Thursday …

Nurses who ended their two-day strike against UP Health System-Marquette Saturday morning have, at least for the most part, not been allowed to return to work. In a statement issued Friday, hospital officials said that they had been obliged to make a five-day work commitment to the replacement nurses they …

Nurses walking the picket lines at UP Health System-Marquette have been told their services won’t be needed by the hospital until Tuesday. The two-day strike by the nurses union was scheduled to end this morning at 6:59. Nurses have been protesting staffing levels which they say are too low, and …

Artist booth applications are now available for the 41st annual Poor Artists’ Sale. The Poor Artists Sale is a juried art fair, which will be held at the CLK Gymnasium on December 2nd. Artists who wish to apply should pick up an application form at the Copper Country Community Arts …

Despite the rainy forecast, tomorrow’s Baraga County Beer Fest will take place at L’Anse Waterfront Park. The second annual event is a fundraiser for the Baraga County Chamber of Commerce, which is putting up tents to keep visitors and vendors dry. The Fest will be open from 1:00 until 5:00, …

The Houghton-Portage Township School District continues to reap the benefits of Michigan’s School of Choice policy. Enrollment numbers for the 2016-2017 school year published by the MLive website show that 43 percent of students at the Houghton schools come from other districts. That’s one of the highest percentages in the …

The strike by nurses at the Upper Peninsula’s largest hospital has moved into its second day. Members of the Michigan Nurses Association want UP Health System-Marquette to resolve what they say are dangerously low staffing levels. The walkout is scheduled to end tomorrow morning at 7:00, but union bargainer Janie …

UP Health System-Portage has purchased some new equipment. Interim CEO Roy Vinson says the hospital is spending 2.3-million dollars on improvements, which include a CT scanner, data storage devices, and new mammography, ultrasound and dialysis machines.      

Lots of Keweenaw residents are out of shape, and William Cooke wants to change that. Cooke is the new Portage Health Foundation Endowed Professor of Preventive and Community Health at Michigan Tech. His goal is to make the concept of diet and exercise less forbidding. “My catch phrase is ‘eat …