Category Archives: Featured

Turner, Goldsworthy Earn CMC MVP Honors - Friday Sports Wrap
Click on the highlighted scores for additional game details. High School The Houghton softball team's season ended with a 10-0 loss to Petoskey in a district tournament semifinal yesterday. The Northm...
Todd Overbeek May 30, 2025

MI-TRALE awards four scholarships supported by the Marvin Westerdahl Memorial Scholarship Fund
MI TRALE awards scholarships to students. Recently MI TRALE announced the trail recreation nonprofit will award four scholarships to students and support education opportunities. Board and scholarship...
Thomas Fournier May 29, 2025

Houghton approves the 2025-26 budget, will need to scale down Sharon Avenue paving project
Houghton will award a 1.1 million dollar paving project to Bacco Construction. Last night the city council approved Bacco's lone bid for the project. The company's bid came in a little higher than ant...
Thomas Fournier May 29, 2025

No injuries reported in Chassell fire
Officials investigate the cause of a structure fire in Chassell. On Tuesday Chassell firefighters were dispatched to 4100 North Entry Road for a structure fire at 545 am. First responders found reside...
Thomas Fournier May 29, 2025

Calumet's progress to rejuvenate 5th Street starts with the community
Calumet businesses and people drive the community's progress. Recently the Frozen Farms Company completed its first-floor expansion and two upstairs housing units. The project received 324,000 in gran...
Thomas Fournier May 29, 2025

Hancock Softball Stops Calumet - Thursday Sports Wrap
Click on the highlighted scores for additional game details. High School In softball yesterday... Hancock defeated Calumet 3-1. Sadie Biekkola pitched four no-hit innings to pick up the win. Sofie Fre...
Todd Overbeek May 29, 2025

Meet up and Eat up provided close to 200,000 meals to students in the Copper Country in 2024
Over eleven weeks last summer Houghton, Hancock, and Calumet schools provided more than 190,000 meals to students. The meet-up and eat-up summer meals program returns in 2025. And school districts wan...
Thomas Fournier May 28, 2025

Historical Society of Michigan puts the Keweenaw Peninsula history on full display over three days
In close to one month in western upper Peninsula history will be on full display. While the region's many festivals and events this summer have a historical context within communities, another event w...
Thomas Fournier May 28, 2025

Jets Win Baseball Playoff Opener - Wednesday Sports Wrap
Click on the highlighted scores for additional game details. High School In baseball yesterday... Calumet split their doubleheader against Marquette, falling 1-0, then coming back for a 7-4 win. In th...
Todd Overbeek May 28, 2025

Houghton County Sheriff begins investigation into fatal fire in Tapiola
Houghton County sheriff investigates a fire incident in Tapiola. On Sunday the Houghton County sheriff was dispatched to a residence in Tapiola at 7:40 am for a domestic altercation. Deputies were tol...
Thomas Fournier May 27, 2025






