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Houghton has begun working on the city’s 2024-25 budget. Last night the city council held the second budget work session to review department revenues and allocation proposals for the coming year. City Manager Eric Waara led the council through the city’s public improvement, Parking, Water, Sewer, Employee benefit, and equipment fund detailing how each department brings money into …

Upper Peninsula travel organizations applaud the state house’s recent 50 million dollar Pure Michigan Proposal. In the recently passed State House Budget proposal included a 50 million dollar allocation to enhance and expand tourism marketing efforts showcasing Michigan’s attractive wilderness with the flagship Pure Michigan campaign. Director of the Upper Peninsula Travel and Recreation Association Tom Nemacheck says that over the years the …

The Ottawa National Forest will reform the Resource Advisory Committee to provide funding to natural resource projects. The Ottawa National Forest Resource Advisory Committee will begin accepting public proposals to invest 780000 dollars from the Secure Rural Schools Act. Project proposals must benefit lands in Gogebic, Iron, Baraga, Houghton, and …

Copper Shores Community Health Foundation helps people build bridges out of poverty. Later this month Copper Shores Bridges will host the Bridges Out of Poverty workshop in Baraga. During the event participants will learn about instability and poverty in communities in the Copper Country, specifically in Baraga County. Bridges will encourage attendees to view economic class struggle …

Houghton High School and middle school students excel at the 2024 National Cyber League competition. CyberHusky, made up of Houghton High School and Middle School Students is led by Michigan Tech Professor Yu Cai. He says that he’s proud and pleasantly surprised by how well the students did in both team …

Hancock will hire part-time drivers to fill staffing needs at the city transportation department. The city of Hancock seeks to hire transit drivers for part-time positions. Drivers will work up to 28 hours per week. Hancock transit drivers make 16 dollars per hour. Public transportation drivers in Michigan are required to …

U.S. News ranks Houghton Central High School as a top 50 school in Michigan. In U.S. News’s recent high school rankings publication for 2024, Houghton Central High School scored 93.37 out of 100. Earning the school a ranking among the top 50 in the state and one of few north of …

Michigan Technological University names a new vice president for research. Andrew Barnard has been selected to join the university leadership team in charge of research at the university. Barnard currently serves Penn State University as a professor and director of the Graduate Program in Acoustics. Provost and Senior Vice Resident of Academics Affairs Andrew Stoer …

George Lucas Educational Foundation leader, Milton Chen has been invited to Marquette to deliver an address to Northern Michigan University’s graduates. Northern Michigan University has invited Milton Chen, Senior Fellow and Executive Director for the GLEF to speak at the 2024 Spring commencement ceremony. Chen will receive an Honorary Doctorate …

Feeding America’s May delivery will arrive in Ontonagon at Noon today. The Copper Shores and Feeding America Ontonagon mobile food pantry partnership expanded in 2024 to begin providing critical food supplies more often than in years past. The program this year started in March and will continue each month on the first Wednesday through …