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[Escanaba, Michigan – January 18, 2019] – CARLY PEARCE, the new voice of country, takes the stage at the U.P. State Fair on Monday, August 12. Carly Pearce is a 27 year old who grew up in a small town in Kentucky. At the young age of 11, Pearce fronted …

Highland Copper Company has received the mining, air and dam safety permits from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality for its Copperwood Project at the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park. A requested amendment to the original mining permit that was granted in 2012 was also approved by the DEQ, allowing …

Governor Gretchen Whitmer is joining the governors from Washington and New York in demanding action from the Trump administration for unpaid federal workers. The concern is over the state’s ability to make unemployment benefits to federal workers who have remained on the job during the partial government shutdown. “As governors …

Whether you don’t even know how to pronounce “sauna,” or if you used to have full conversations with your Finnish immigrant grandmother, the Finnish American Heritage Center (FAHC) has just the class for you this semester. The FAHC is offering three levels of Finnish language this term, all of which are led …

MANISTIQUE OUTPOST: On January 16, 2019 at approximately 5:30 pm Troopers from the Michigan State Police, Manistique Outpost, were dispatched to a single vehicle crash on Port Inland Road just south of US-2 in Doyle Township of Schoolcraft County. Upon arriving on scene, Troopers found the driver of the vehicle …

Michigan conservation officers obtained confessions Tuesday from two Upper Peninsula men suspected in separate, unrelated wolf poaching incidents in Ontonagon and Menominee counties. Prosecuting attorneys are reviewing details of the two cases, with decisions on specific charges to be brought expected soon. Gray wolves are a protected species under the …

An Upper Peninsula ski resort has recently gained some national recognition and been ranked among the top resorts on the continent.  USA Today placed Mt. Bohemia in the #2 spot of its top ten North American ski resorts. “They chose 19 resorts in the west and one in the east, …

A 75-year-old man was found dead Wednesday morning in an alleyway behind a Car Quest Auto Parts Store. The Iron River Police Department says they received a call around 7:00am of an unresponsive man and found him dead upon arrival. The man has been identified but a name is not …

Michigan Tech will honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a week’s worth of activities. Director for the University’s Center for Diversity and Inclusion Kellie Raffaelli said this will make the 30th year that Michigan Tech has celebrated this important week.  “It’s mostly important to recognize his …

GREEN BAY, WI – January 17, 2019 – Shopko (the “Company”), a leading operator of general merchandise stores throughout the Central, Western and Pacific Northwest regions of the U.S., announced today that its first-day motions to help facilitate continued operations while the Company operates under Chapter 11 protection were approved yesterday …