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Keep Our Republic Safe and Michiganders for Civic Resilience will host two Upper Peninsula sessions with the community tomorrow to talk about election integrity. Both non-partisan groups have organized opportunities for residents to gain a deeper understanding of the election process and what happens to after each voter casts their …

Two Marquette local news stations will soon combine resources, rebrand under a unified local news brand and expand local news coverage in the area. Starting September 9, My UP News will offer 20 hours of live, local news per week across the stations including: 5a-7a M-F on WBUP (ABC) 6p-6:30p …

Good friends, good food, and good brews. And all for a good cause. In the two years since returning, Keweenaw Brewfest, has worked with the Portage Lake District Library and Copper Shores community health foundation’s Meals on Wheels program. Recently the Houghton Rotatory presented over 20,000 dollars to Meals on …

UPDATE: The Marquette County Sheriff’s Department reports that Rylen Parker was located Monday morning in Big Bay. He appeared to be in good health, but was taken to a hospital “out of an abundance of caution.” ORIGINAL STORY: The search continues for a man lost in northwest Marquette County. Thirty-year-old …

Plans have been announced to try to extend the Copper Country’s dominance in the world of plaid. The second annual Keweenaw Plaidurday Celebration on October 4th will include an attempt to extend the record for the most people wearing plaid in one place at one time. Last year, 1,745 people …

Organizers of the Houghton County Fair are celebrating another successful event. Carol Saari in the fair office said attendance Thursday and Friday approached, and may have exceeded, record levels. Attendance seemed about average Saturday and Sunday. Full attendance figures won’t be available until advance ticket sales are added into the …

Good weather helped produce a big turnout for this year’s Porcupine Mountains Music Festival. Part of the audience on the ski hill at Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park. Organizer Cheryl Sundberg put it in the “win” column… Every year we can put the festival on, and it we get through …

A recent large donation has helped to pay for an upgrade of the mammography unit at Aspirus’ Houghton clinic.   The new state-of-the-art 3D mammography unit honors the memory of Mary Creske. Creske was a Wisconsin native, who began her career as a dental hygienist. She eventually earned a Doctorate …

More Upper Peninsula workers had jobs in July than in June, but a bigger increase in the number of enrolled workers pushed the unemployment rate slightly higher. The 5.8 percent rate across the peninsula is not seasonally adjusted. June’s rate was 5.5 percent. Officials with the Michigan Department of Technology, …

Aspirus Keweenaw Hospital and Clinics has added Family Medicine Physician Kristi Wegener, MD, to its the staff of its Laurium clinic. Dr. Wegener specializes in comprehensive and preventative care for the whole family. She has special interests in preventative, outpatient, integrative and lifestyle medicine.  Dr. Wegener is originally from Bay …