Category Archives: Featured

MI Neighborhood Program awards $400,000 to Laurium to support home projects
Laurium will receive $400,000 from the MSHDA Community Development Block Grant. In an announcement Village Manager Ian Lewis shared on the Laurium Facebook page, the community will receive an award fr...
Thomas Fournier Mar 03, 2026

As temperature fluctuate, trail conditions can deteriorate
Snowmobiling enters its late-season stage, and several factors could impact safe trail conditions. On the eastern end of the Upper Peninsula, Michigan State Police responded to a fatal snowmobile cras...
Thomas Fournier Mar 03, 2026 Two snowmobilers enjoy a sunny afternoon along a trail in Gogebic County

Gremlins, Lakes Advance in Hoops Tourney - Tuesday Sports Wrap
Click on the highlighted scores for additional game details. High School On the opening night of the girls basketball tournament... Division Four, District 97 at Ewen-Trout - Bessemer got past Watersm...
Todd Overbeek Mar 03, 2026

Organizers Celebrate Successful CopperDog
CopperDog officials are celebrating a successful weekend of racing and related events... It's the only weight pull in the whole Upper Michigan area, and it's the only winter pull in the Midwest, unles...
Todd Overbeek Mar 02, 2026

Laurium Woman Faces Meth Charges
A Laurium woman faces felony drug charges following a recent traffic stop in Ironwood. Thirty-six-year-old Chelsey Nicole Kuopous was among multiple occupants of a vehicle that was stopped for an equi...
Todd Overbeek Mar 02, 2026

Bestgen Repeats as CopperDog Champ - Monday Sports Wrap
Click on the highlighted scores for additional game details. High School The girls basketball tournament opens tonight with district play-in games. Division Four, District 97 at Ewen-Trout - Watersmee...
Todd Overbeek Mar 02, 2026

Houghton Hockey Heads to State Semifinals - Sunday Sports Wrap
Click on the highlighted scores for additional game details. High School The Houghton High School hockey team is headed to the state quarterfinals. The Gremlins blanked Marquette 4-0 in Saturday's qua...
Todd Overbeek Mar 01, 2026

Copper Country Today - March 1, 2026
On this week's Copper Country Today: Host Todd VanDyke welcomes Laurium Village Manager Ian Lewis with an update, one year after a fire destroyed the village's public works garage. Hear the discussion...
Todd Overbeek Mar 01, 2026

Tech Hockey Blanked by BGSU - Saturday Sports Wrap
Click on the highlighted scores for additional game details. High School Houghton and Marquette will meet in a state hockey tournament quarterfinal game tonight at 6:00 at the Berry Events Center at N...
Todd Overbeek Feb 28, 2026

Sled dog teams begin to arrive into Calumet for the 2026 Copper Dog
Sled dog teams began arriving in Calumet this morning for registration and veterinary health checks ahead of the Copper Dog race, which launches tonight at 7 p.m. from 5th Street. Veterinarians met te...
Thomas Fournier Feb 27, 2026






