Category Archives: Local News

Baraga County's Road Commission will close Pequaming Road until further notice starting next week. On Monday the road commission will have crews begin a culver replacement project on Pequaming road, b...

Big Annie left a big impression on the Copper Country. While for many years, her name was seldom talked about, her story stayed alive through historical accounts of the 1913 Copper Strike. Many years ...

Houghton's council will ask the planning commission to consider late changes to a project before potentially rezoning the site. Last night, the Houghton city council reviewed summary reports from the ...

Baraga County Historical Society broke the ground on a major expansion project on Wednesday. In the months leading up to the shovels picking up dirt, historical society worked with Jay Wakefield to de...

In 2021, Copper Island Academy established an elementary school and middle school. The copper country's charter school later built a separate gymnasium for physical education programs and indoor pract...

Michigan Technological University's Health Research Institute recently celebrated the opening of a center in Grand Rapids. Last week, Michigan Tech HRI leaders and researchers traveled to Grand Rapids...

Basket raffles, 50/50 drawings, and bingo nights can bring the community together any night. But it feels a bit more special when taking a chance also supports a great cause. Yesterday several copper ...

Boo on the Bay will welcome ghouls, witches, and many more characters on Friday. The annual event put on by the L'Anse downtown development authority has brought families to the village's downtown sin...

Today is Walk and Roll to School Day in honor of Pedestrian Safety Month. The annual event encourages communities to consider walking or riding a bike to work or school as an initiative to make commun...

It's always a special time of the year when the leaves begin to change in Michigan. Especially as the transformation takes hold of the Upper Peninsula each autumn. Where quant towns welcome an extende...