Category Archives: Featured

MTU Basketball Sweeps NMU - Friday Sports Wrap
Click on the highlighted scores for more game details. High School In boys basketball last night... Houghton fell to Iron Mountain 66-53. Calumet downed Lake Linden-Hubbell 62-37. Ewen-Trout Creek dis...
Todd Overbeek Feb 21, 2025

Comment Period Open for Eagle Mine Air Permit Request
A public comment period continues for air permit revisions requested by operators of the Eagle Mine in Marquette County. Owners want to install and operate a paste backfill process and to increase the...
Todd Overbeek Feb 21, 2025

Gremlins, Jets Advance in Hockey Tourney - Thursday Sports Wrap
Click on the highlighted scores for more game details. High School Houghton and Jeffers will face off for the regional high school hockey title. In last night's semifinals, the Gremlins defeated Hanco...
Todd Overbeek Feb 20, 2025

Hancock Revises Water Policy, Discusses Bridgefest Fireworks Site
Hancock residents could find it easier to keep their water leads from freezing, following action by the city council last night. City Manager Mary Babcock explained that the city has historically not ...
Todd Overbeek Feb 20, 2025

MTU Trustees to Consider Ending Diversity Incentive
The Trump administration is giving America's schools and universities two weeks to eliminate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal money. Michigan Tech Trustees will consider a response to that...
Todd Overbeek Feb 20, 2025

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.






