Category Archives: News

Upper Peninsula Poet Laureate Foundation seeks to fill a two year position
The Upper Peninsula Poet Laureate Foundation will plan to add a new member after applications open next week. The Upper Peninsula Poet Laureate promotes poetry and spoken word art appreciation with re...
Thomas Fournier Apr 08, 2025

Houghton County Jail Task Force highlights challenges with existing facility and shares potential designs with residents
Alongside community stakeholders, the Copper Country League of Women Voters has worked with the Houghton County Jail Task Force in the past two years to prepare the county to ask residents for a milla...
Thomas Fournier Apr 08, 2025

NMU President Resigns, Accepts Post in Montana
As received from Northern Michigan University: Brock Tessman is stepping down as president of Northern Michigan University, effective July 1, to become president at Montana State University, it was an...
Todd Overbeek Apr 07, 2025

Better Business Bureaus of Eastern and Western Michigan merge as one organization
The Better Business Bureau chapters of Michigan will combine efforts and merge as one entity. Last week the Eastern and Western Michigan BBB announced the groups will merge to become the Better Busine...
Thomas Fournier Apr 07, 2025

Michigan Technological University hosts the 2025 Eastern Great Lakes ASCE Student Symposium
The American Society of Civil Engineers will arrive in Houghton later this week for the Eastern Great Lakes ASCE Student Symposium. The symposium will bring 16 universities to the Copper Country and c...
Thomas Fournier Apr 07, 2025

5th Annual Puppy Parade helps the Copper Country pause for a cause
Next week Copper Shores Victim Support invites the Copper Country to a fun event in support of survivors of sexual assault. The 5th annual Paws for a Cause puppy parade helps get the community outside...
Thomas Fournier Apr 07, 2025

Isle Royale National Park prepare for first supply trip to the island
Isle Royale National Park Service Staff look forward to welcoming visitors to the island park this summer. While many rumors have floated about potential service and operation gaps in 2025, the Nation...
Thomas Fournier Apr 07, 2025

MDOT's Paint a Plow program returns to partner with school districts
With the recent snowstorm dropping off more powder in the Upper Peninsula, winter is not quite done in the region. To help get the state through the final stretch of winter Michigan Department of Tran...
Thomas Fournier Apr 04, 2025

Torch Lake Federal Credit Union to merge with Peninsula Federal Credit Union
Torch Lake Federal Credit Union will merge with the Peninsula Federal Credit Union. At the Torch Lake Federal Credit Union's annual meeting in March, the financial institution announced it would merge...
Thomas Fournier Apr 04, 2025

Art in Silico found at the intersection of STEM and Humanities
Technology's influence on everyday life has grown rapidly in recent years in part due to advances in artificial intelligence. At that same time Michigan Technological University has placed itself as a...
Thomas Fournier Apr 04, 2025
Tuesday
Highs around 76 under mainly clear skies. Northerly winds 8 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy with lows around 58. Northwesterly winds 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday
Clearing skies with highs around 73. Winds turning north 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday Night
Mainly clear with lows around 54. Winds out of the northeast 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday
Highs around 76 under sunny skies. Winds becoming north around 5 mph.
Thursday Night
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