Category Archives: Featured

Marquette Physician, Wife, Charged with Child Abuse
A Marquette Township physician and his wife face child abuse charges, after allegedly locking their special needs child in a squalid closet. Marquette County sheriff's deputies entered the family home...
Todd Overbeek Feb 20, 2025

CCISD CTE students sweep the Automotive Overall podium at the SkillsUSA competition in Escanaba
CCISD automotive technology students bring home trophies and top honors from the SkillsUSA competition in Escanaba. At the start of February, the Copper Country ISD's Automotive tech program joined te...
Thomas Fournier Feb 19, 2025 CCISD CTE Automotive Tech Students

Jeffers' Brit Heinonen Leads GLHC All-Conference Team
Brit Heinonen of the Jeffers High School hockey team has been named the Jim Crawford Player of the Year in the Great Lakes Hockey Conference. Jets coach Aaron Helminen claimed the Don Miller Coach of ...
Todd Overbeek Feb 19, 2025

New and Returning volunteers encouraged to join CopperDog organizers at CLK Schools for training
Next week Calumet will begin to prepare for the Copper Country's premiere sled dog race. The CopperDog 150. Race weekend has sled teams, mushers, and volunteers found from Calumet on Friday to Copper ...
Thomas Fournier Feb 19, 2025

Laurium begins the village's road to recovery following devastating DPW fire
Laurium's Department of Public Works has settled into its new home. For now. Laurium's village council has many big decisions to make over the coming months. Village Manager Ian Lewis has set out Laur...
Thomas Fournier Feb 19, 2025 Laurium Village councilors prepare for its regular February 2025 meeting.
DB-TC Boys Triumph in Torch Lake Trophy Game - Wednesday Sports Wrap
Click on the highlighted scores for more game details. High School In boys basketball last night... Houghton dispatched Jeffers 67-36. Calumet fell to Ishpeming 68-39. Dollar Bay-Tamarack City downed ...
Todd Overbeek Feb 19, 2025

Michigan Tech Forestry Club earns a nomination for the 2024 Outstanding SAF Student Chapter Award
The Michigan Tech Forestry Club earns a nomination as an exemplary SAF chapter. Recently the Michigan Technological University's College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science proudly nominated...
Thomas Fournier Feb 18, 2025

KFRC invites kids and families to relieve the cabin fever with some fun outside
With more than 200 inches of snow landing in the Keweenaw Peninsula so far this winter, it's easy to feel trapped indoors. But before the region warms up the Keweenaw Family Resource Center wants to g...
Thomas Fournier Feb 18, 2025

MTU Public Safety and Police Services locate the body of a missing university student
The body of a missing Michigan Technological University student has been located. Today MTU Department of Public safety and Police services officials announced a search has located the deceased body o...
Thomas Fournier Feb 18, 2025

Lake Linden - Hubbell quickly organize benefit concert for Laurium at the Calumet Theatre
The Copper Country comes together to support each other's communities. Tomorrow evening Lake Linden - Hubbell schools will host a benefit concert to help the village of Laurium recover after a fire th...
Thomas Fournier Feb 18, 2025 Lake Linden - Hubbell Bands will lead a benefit concert supporting a neighboring community.






