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There is a big winner of the $435.3 million Power Ball lottery, but they aren’t in Michigan. The winning ticket was sold in Indiana. A ticket worth $2 million was sold in New Jersey and tickets worth $1 million were sold in Kansas, Massachusetts, New York and Texas. Saturday’s drawing …

A Laurium woman is hospitalized after a head-on collision this morning in Portage Township. The accident happened on M-26 about 1/8 mile south of Green Acres Road around 8:15am when a Dodge sedan collided with a semi truck. A 40-year-old Laurium woman was driving northbound in the sedan when she crossed over the …

The Village of Calumet has a new Administrator. The contract for Calumet native Joe Snow was approved at Tuesday’s village council meeting, 6-1. Snow returned to the Copper Country about a year ago after a 31 year career in the military. He was working at Michigan Tech when the opportunity …

By Mark Wilcox, News Writer Michigan Technological University Michigan Tech’s Spring Career Fair, among the largest ever, will take place from noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday (Feb. 22) in the Student Development Complex. Steve Patchin, director of Career Services, says that, as of last week, 220 recruiting organizations have committed …

February 21, 2017 — The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) and local agencies are enacting additional annual spring weight restrictions. Effective at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22, weight restrictions will be expanded to cover all state trunkline highways for the entire state of Michigan, both Upper and Lower peninsulas. State …

HANCOCK, Mich., Feb. 21, 2017 – The Portage Lake District Library (PLDL) received $3,555 from the Portage Health Foundation (PHF) to offer an expanded Market Bucks program for 2017’s Summer Reading Program participants. PLDL applied for funding under PHF’s food initiative RFP late last year.  The grant funding was a …

The jail population in Houghton County must be reduced and the sheriff is taking steps to see that it happens. Sheriff Brian McLean has invoked the Jail Overcrowding Emergency Powers Act to address overcrowding at the Houghton County Jail. McLean advised county officials that the population has remained at or …

A Hancock man will spend the next month in jail for a drug charge. 30-year-old Andrew Rohrer was sentenced Tuesday to 60 days in the Houghton County Jail for possession of a controlled substance. Rohrer was allegedly attacked by 28-year-old Joseph Schreiber in June 2016 when the two met to …

Careers in engineering may currently be male dominated, but that is changing. Middle school girls were shown how they can pursue an education in the STEM fields on the campus of Michigan Tech. 260 7th and 8th graders from 14 schools came out for Get WISE—Women in Science and Engineering. …

A dramatic walk back of an income tax cut plan from the GOP leadership in the Michigan House. Lansing Bureau Chief Tim Skubick reports so many republicans rejected plan A, the leadership scrapped that and modified the rollback.