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What better way to spend a winter weekday evening than learning a new skill, and embracing your ancestral roots? That’s what the staff at the Finnish American Heritage Center had in mind when they crafted this semester’s lineup of community enrichment programming. This term’s lineup includes several language opportunities. These …

HOUGHTON, Michigan (January 28, 2016) –The Keweenaw Chamber of Commerce (Chamber) along with partners Keweenaw Economic Development Alliance (KEDA), MTEC SmartZone, Keweenaw Young Professionals (KYP), and the Keweenaw Convention and Visitors Bureau (KCVB) are hosting the fourth annual Keweenaw Community Sparkplug Awards Dinner, a local business awards ceremony, on Thursday, …

The Muslim Student Association at Michigan Tech recently held the first in a series of public cultural lectures. President of the Muslim Student Association, Khaled Jadi says the idea behind this series is to present the public with a direct informational source of Islamic culture, instead of leaving people to …

Heikinpäivä, Hancock’s mid-winter celebration, is Saturday. The tori opens up at 10am at the Finnish American Heritage Center and the First United Methodist Church, offering a wide range of craft items and baked goods. Family Fun Day activities will be taking place at Quincy Green from 10:00-2:00, where kids can …

Computer Science is still a male-dominated field but Michigan Tech is doing their part to change that. The university has once again been selected to participate in the Pacesetters program, designed to increase the number of women involved in computing. Pacesetters is a group of 42 organizations that work with …

Michigan residents aren’t happy with how Governor Snyder has handled the Flint water crisis. A new poll by EPIC-MRA found 69-percent have a negative impression of how the governor has responded. Twenty-one percent view it positively. Ten-percent are undecided. Despite their overwhelming unhappiness, just 29-percent of those polled believe Governor …

A rule change impacting how parents can apply for a non-medical immunization waiver for their child is being credited with a 39 percent drop in the number of requests for a waiver. Jennifer Eisner with the state Department of Health and Human Services says, this time around, parents had to …

Some members of Michigan’s congressional delegation are pushing the U.S. Senate and U.S. House to get behind legislation to provide up to $400 million to replace the lead pipes in Flint. U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow says the state would have to come to the table with $400 of its own …

The state legislature has approved $28 million dollars in aid to help Flint deal with its water crisis. Both the House and Senate gave the green light to the supplemental budget bill, which now heads to the governor. The money will be used to supply the city with bottled water, …

Many Republicans in Michigan are throwing their hands in the air over the fact that Donald Trump has remained a frontrunner in most polling. They argue that, among other things, Trump’s ideology leans Democratic on many issues. Other GOP faithful cringe at the notion Trump could be their party’s standard …