FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP – The Houghton County Jail Committee’s open meeting Industry Day, at the Franklin Township Hall Wednesday, generated information for the committee to consider in its search for ROMs (Rough Order of Magnitude) cost…
Hancock to fix sewer lines
HANCOCK — Hancock City Council met Wednesday and approved several financial commitments to the upcoming water and sewer project on…
Lost woman found safe
MARQUETTE -- The Marquette County Search and Rescue team was called out late Sunday after receiving a report of a…
Among worst in the world
ESCANABA -- As of Thursday morning, particle pollution in Delta County areas has a “hazardous” Air Quality Index (AQI) of…
Keranen responds to parade controversy
HOUGHTON — Tuesday’s regular meeting of the Houghton County Board of Commissioners drew an animated crowd. Many came not to…
Smoke from a distant fire
HOUGHTON — It's like 2025 all over again. Residents of the Upper Peninsula, indeed throughout Michigan, woke to smoke Wednesday.…
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World Chimpanzee Day Editor: World Chimpanzee Day is (was) July 14, and future generations will look back in denunciation at how we’ve allowed our closest non-human kin to be torn from their mothers, thrown into cages, experimented on, infected with diseases, locked in roadside zoos, and forced to perform. Dr. Jane Goodall and other…
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The meaning of the Fourth of July
Each July 4, Americans both at home and abroad, gather to celebrate. Under skies ablaze with fireworks, on streets lined with youngsters waiting for candy from passing floats or simply standing with family in front of grills smelling of seared burgers and hot dogs, we celebrate. We celebrate and remember the formation of a…