Category Archives: News

On short notice, the Copper Country raises over 3,000 dollars to support Laurium's DPW recovery efforts. Last week the Lake Linden - Hubbell Schools music department worked with area schools, and the ...

The recent run of warmer temperatures has the coast guard warning snowmobile riders to use caution when near ice. Warm air temperatures will cause frozen waters to melt at alarming rates and may cause...

Michigan Technological University was recently elevated to an R-1 research university by the Carnegie classification for institutions of higher education. The designation places the university among t...

At the inaugural Hancock Snow Sculpting Invitational yesterday, Hancock DDA Coordinator Todd Gast handed the $1,500 first place check to Sculptora Borealis. https://youtu.be/2PDypM76qUM Team USA took ...

An Iron River man is heading to prison for drug trafficking. In U.S. District Court late last week, 45-year-old Matthew Joseph Sheehan was sentenced to an 84-month term. He pleaded guilty in October t...

The United States Postal Service's Iron Mountain Processing and Distribution Center will remain in operation - for now. U.S. Senator Gary Peters says he was informed by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy ...

New rules for minimum-wage and tipped workers are now in effect in Michigan. On Friday, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed compromise legislation that ended a battle that began with a 2018 ballot propos...

Michigan's statewide high school graduation rate reached a record high last year. Data compiled by the Michigan Center for Educational Performance and Information shows the 4-year graduation rate for ...

Communities across the western Upper Peninsula are reaffirming their support for continued development for Highland Copper's Copperwood Mine. A joint release from Highland Copper and InvestUP notes th...

Michigan State Police troopers are continuing their investigation into what they believe was an arson and suicide in the eastern Upper Peninsula. Officers from the St. Ignace post called to a home in ...