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You can show your love for the Parade of Nations and have a chance to win a free trip. All you need to do is come out to watch the parade this Saturday with an “I Love Parade of Nations” sign and you will be handed a ticket for the …

The Houghton Fire Department is getting a new fire truck. The new vehicle is a 2015 model with 7,000 miles on it and will be equipped with a 100 foot aerial platform. The total cost of the truck is $1,017,500. The City of Houghton applied for a loan through USDA …

Michigan Tech is the Environmental Protection Agency’s top choice to locate its new Region 5 Environmental Finance Center. The center will provide outreach, training, research and technology transfer to local agencies. Region 5 Environmental Finance Center Director Tim Colling said, “Our focus for the center is primarily going to be …

If you want to see fall color in the U.P., Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park will offer its chairlift rides to see it, starting this weekend. That’s park interpreter, Bob Wild, who says the Fall color is running a couple of weeks late in the western U.P. and he expects …

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump spent about an hour in Flint Wednesday afternoon. Trump toured the Flint Water Treatment plant and then spoke at a church. He says he would fix the water crisis. Trump also criticized Ford for announcing the move of small car production to Mexico. Trump said …

It may cost you more to drink a beer. Byron Center Republican Tom Hooker has introduced legislation to increase the tax on beer to five cents. The extra money raised would help fund treatment programs. The beer tax has been the same since 1966. The tax would only be on …

Kinross Correctional Facility in the Upper Peninsula is still on lockdown as clean-up from a Saturday prison riot continues. The Michigan Department of Corrections say the inmates were peacefully protesting Saturday morning in Kincheloe and got violent in the afternoon. Sinks were broken inside the bathrooms, inmates also broke windows. …

The Michigan House has given final approval to bills that would further regulate medical marijuana. This comes nearly eight years after its use was first authorized by voters. The main legislation would impose a new tax and establish a state licensing system to grow, process, sell, transport or test marijuana. …

The CLK Board of Education held their first monthly meeting of the new school year. They heard a presentation from Calumet High School Computer Science teacher Mike Roland, Michigan Tech’s Doctor Don LaFreniere, Celeste Holt from the Keweenaw National Historical Park and several Calumet High School students involved in the …

Michigan Technological University moved up in the latest US News & World Report annual rankings of undergraduate programs at colleges and universities nationwide. In rankings released this week, Michigan Tech placed well into the top half of public universities, ranking 53rd in the nation out of 130 public universities.  Last …