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Winter Carnival concludes this weekend. Today’s activities include the tug-of-war at the ballfields at 10:00, sleigh rides this afternoon outside the Walker Arts and Humanities Center, and Ice Masses at 5:30 and 10:00 this evening at the St. Albert the Great Ice Chapel. They’ll hold an additional mass tomorrow morning …

The state will provide $100,000 to help restore an historic building in downtown Calumet. Schindler Building (center) The award from the Historic Preservation Office’s Resilient Lakeshore Heritage Grant Program will support stabilization of the historic sandstone building at 425 5th Street, known as the Schindler Building. The building has been …

Explorers have discovered a very old shipwreck in Lake Superior. The remains of the Nucleus were found 600 feet beneath the surface, around 40 miles northwest of Vermilion Point, which is about 10 miles east of Whitefish Point. The Nucleus led a troubled life – it had sunk and been …

The Keweenaw Chamber of Commerce has recently announced the list of local residents and organizations nominated for this year’s Sparkplug Awards. The award ceremony will take place next month, and the Sparkplug Awards committee will begin considering all nominations carefully. The Sparkplug Awards committee is comprised of a panel of …

With Valentine’s day taking place in the middle of the week, many people will plan to celebrate with their sweetie this weekend. A great place to dance the night away, and support Fourth of July activities, this weekend is South Range’s Valentine’’s Day Dance at the South Range VFW Lounge. …

Phi Kappa Tau earned top honors in the 2023 Winter Carnival statue competition today. The perennial champions outscored runner-up Tau Kappa Epsilon. Alpha Gamma Delta and Sigma Tau Gamma placed third in the month-long competition. In the men’s division, Phi Kappa Tau and Tau Kappa Epsilon placed first and second. …

A modicum of civility returned to last night’s Houghton City Council meeting, as members dealt with fallout from the discord displayed at several previous sessions. One of the communications read into the minutes at the beginning of the meeting by City Clerk Ann Vollrath was a letter from former Hancock …

UPDATE 2/13/23 – Officials have confirmed that they have found the body of an ice climber who fell into Lake Superior a week ago at the Pictured Rocks. Thirty-two-year-old James Bake of Gaylord slipped off the ice face of the Miner’s Castle. Initial rescue and recovery efforts were hampered by …

Wednesday’s warm weather has caused a dangerous deterioration of lake ice conditions  in the Copper Country. The Baraga County Sheriff’s office advised ice fishermen to be very cautious before heading out. Ice that had reached safe levels at the head of Keweenaw Bay had become soft and porous by mid-day.  …

Unusually warm weather made for a pleasant night on and around the Michigan Tech campus, as students finished their Winter Carnival snow statues. Efforts in the month-long and all-nighter competition will be judged after this morning’s 9:00 completion deadline. Results will be announced later today, and will be posted at …