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The Copper Dog 150 sled dog race is only about a month away. This year the race will add a fourth route to the competition. And that will mean a few more volunteers are needed. Each year, hundreds of people from around the Copper Country, and some even visiting from …

Should the City of Hancock purchase Quincy Green? The city council will open its meeting tonight with a public hearing on the proposal. The green space in front of Finlandia University’s Hirvonen Hall was once the site of Hancock High School. When the building burned down in 1922, a new …

A mid-day two-car crash near Painesdale yesterday injured two people. Houghton County Sheriff’s deputies were called out just after noon to M-26. They determined a 17-year-old girl traveling north on the highway lost control of her vehicle, and crossed into the southbound lane. It hit a vehicle driven by a …

Governor Gretchen Whitmer yesterday signed a $1.1 billion supplemental appropriations bill with significant implications for the Upper Peninsula. The allocation includes $200 million in incentives to a Swedish company that plans to make a major investment in the U.P.  Billerud will sink $1 billion into a paper mill in Delta …

A regional bank with a significant presence in the Copper Country has announced that it will lay off another 10 percent of its employees. Flagstar Bank was already in the process of trimming its staff when it was acquired by New York Community Bankcorp in December.   Flagstar has been heavily …

L’Anse Fire signed the purchase agreement for a new fire engine and first aerial truck in Baraga County. The truck will be well used in the community, to allow firefighters a higher vantage point when responding to disaster. The truck was purchased with the help of Baraga County, the Keweenaw …

Over the weekend Portage Township’s Dodgeville Ice Rink was vandalized. A bench was broken, signs for the men’s and women’s restroom broken, and a light was torn out and stolen. Public Works crews discovered the broken signs and property yesterday while in the area. Portage Township has reported the incident …

A surprise snow storm covered the Copper Country the last two days. Snow total estimates have ranged between 10 and 14 inches, breaking past the area’s predicted snowfall of a measly 2-4 inches. Though the region’s winter snowfall still lags behind what is normally seen by this time of the …

A woman who was camping north of Lake Linden was brought out of the woods by first responders yesterday. Houghton County Sheriff’s deputies say the 40-year-old woman had been camping about 300 yards off Gregory Street-Cemetery Road since Friday. She called a friend on her cell phone when she became …

Employment levels fell in the Upper Peninsula in December. The number of U.P. residents on the job dropped from 125,600 in November to 124,000 last month. The December employment figure was 1,200 higher than in December of 2021. The figures come from the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget. …