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One person drowned when a boat capsized Wednesday on a Marquette County lake. The Marquette County Sheriff’s Office says three employees of the Huron Mountain Club in Powell Township were working on Mountain Lake in a 16 foot flat bottom jon boat winterizing campsites around the lake when the incident …

State health officials Thursday began an annual campaign of encouraging Michigan residents to get flu vaccinations and have confirmed three cases of influenza in adults already in the 2014-2015 season. One case was identified by a state laboratory as H-1-N-1, one is H-3-N-2 and one is an Influenza-B virus. Officials …

By this time of the year, Yoopers are already anticipating the first signs of winter but if you think we’ll have one like last year’s, thinkg again. According to federal weather forecasters, a new report says that chances of an extremely hard winter like the one Michigan experienced last winter …

Governor Rick Snyder has signed into law a large package of bills that, among other things, makes human trafficking punishable by imprisonment for life and permanently creates the state Human Trafficking Commission within the Attorney General’s Office. Snyder says it’s unacceptable that a dangerous and appalling practice like human trafficking …

The Michigan Education Association says nearly 80 percent of teachers in the state have experienced funding cuts at their schools in the past four years. The president of the state’s teachers union says K-12 funding cuts aren’t campaign rhetoric ahead of the election next month. Democrats and the MEA say …

The Hancock City Council will have a slightly different look the next time they meet. Last night was the final meeting for councilors John Haeussler and Barry Givens. Both have chosen to not to put their names on the ballot for the upcoming election. At the end of the meeting, …

Hancock parks could be on their way to getting help for improvements and renovations. Last night, the Hancock City Council approved to establish the Parks and Recreation Expansion Fund through the Keweenaw Community Foundation. The council allocated $10,000 from the budget to the endowment which will be used to preserve …

Calumet High School is one of the best in the country. That’s according to a list compiled by Newsweek Magazine. This week, the CLK Board of Education announced that Calumet High School was ranked 497th out of more than 14,000 schools in the country. The rankings highlight schools that do …

Michigan’s unemployment rate in September fell to its lowest level in more than six years. According to the Department of Technology, Management & Budget, the state’s jobless rate dipped over the month by .2% to 7.2 percent, the lowest in Michigan since the March 2008 rate of 7.1 percent. Total …

Michigan Tech’s Keweenaw Research Center is partnering with another organization to do their part in finding solutions to the U.P.’s energy efficiency issues. Along with the Central Upper Peninsula Planning and Development Regional Commission, the KRC is looking to research affordable energy options for industrial parks. This week, the collaboration …