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This is test-week across Michigan. Many fifth and eighth graders will begin taking the Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress, or M-STEP, starting today. Other students in elementary and middle schools will be taking tests over the next month or so. Administrators say the testing won’t take as long as …

Detroit is the star of the latest Pure Michigan campaign… Vice President of Travel Michigan, Dave Lorenz, says the 60-second and 30-second ads are all focused on highlighting the city’s resurgence. Lorenz says you won’t see the usual Detroit landmarks in the ads, they’ll explore a different side of the …

Beginning today, the cost to people mailing letters and postcards will be a little less. For the first time in 100-years, the U.S. Postal Service has lowered prices. Stamps for first-class letters now cost 47-cents. That’s down from 49. And postcards will cost 34-cents to mail instead of 35. The …

Michigan Congressman Fred Upton will lead another congressional hearing this week regarding the Flint water crisis. The House Energy and Commerce Committee will meet Wednesday morning to hear more about the infrastructure issues in Flint and the long-term health implications of the lead contaminated water. Those expected to testify are …

One of the suspects accused of robbing the Range Lounge in South Range last December is no longer in jail. The bond for 36-year-old Sasha Anderson of South Range was reduced in Houghton County Circuit Court from $5,000 cash to a $10,000 Personal Recognizance bond. A second suspect in the …

The Michigan State Court of Appeals has denied the request by Nima Nassiri to have his conviction of second degree murder overturned. In November 2014, Nassiri was sentenced in Houghton County Circuit Court to 20 to 40 years in prison for the beating death of his wife, Senaz Nezami, which occured …

Two local high school drama clubs are teaming up to perform one really big show. Students from Calumet and Lake Linden-Hubbell High Schools will be performing the Disney musical Beauty and the Beast this weekend at the Calumet Theater. Co-Director Heather French says the former Broadway show will be presented …

Calumet High School’s robotics team–the CopperBots–are heading to the First Robotics Competition State Championships, but they need your help to get there. To help pay for their trip to the competition in Grand Rapids, members of the team will be collecting recyclable cans tomorrow in Calumet and Laurium. They will …

In mid-2015 a group of community members in Houghton began publicly discussing the possibility of putting a skatepark in the city. So far the city has recognized a skatepark as being in the Master Plan as well as the Recreation Plan. Now it’s up to the community to make it …

Five people are in custody following a drug bust in Houghton County. A narcotics investigation led detectives from the Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement Team Thursday to a house on First Avenue in Atlantic Mine. During a search of the residence, detectives seized 50 individual packets of heroin, 1.5 ounces of …