HOUGHTON – Orbion Space Technology, a Houghton-based satellite propulsion and space systems company, has been sold, according to a press release from the MTEC SmartZone. York Space Systems, a Denver-based satellite manufacturer announced the deal in a March 12 statement released on Business ...

CALUMET – At Tuesday’s Calumet Village Council meeting, Joey Foster, the Community Economic Development Association of Michigan (CEDAM) Fellow who has been working with the village since January 2025, gave his final report. One of the main goals Foster had during his fellowship was to help ...

MARQUETTE — The storm which tore through much of the Upper Midwest over the past few days has finally ended, leaving residents and municipalities with a serious clean-up job. Many cities and townships were either closed or had amended hours on Tuesday, and all of the area schools remained ...

NEWBERRY — During the early evening hours of Monday, Chippewa County Central Dispatch received calls and text messages from an individual who had become stranded near Trail 8 in an open area by the Little Two Hearted River, west of Little Lake Harbor in Luce County. The Luce County ...

MACKINAC ISLAND — At 4:40 p.m. on Sunday, Jason St. Onge, Chief of the Mackinac Island Fire Department, was notified that a man was lost on the ice. Onge immediately sounded an alarm for Fire and EMS and notified the U.S. Coast Guard. A cell phone ping was received from the man who was ...

HOUGHTON — The sentencing of Jacob Kempainen in Houghton County Circuit, scheduled for Monday, was postponed due to the closure of the Houghton County Courthouse because of blizzard conditions. In December, the 22-year old Kempainen pleaded guilty to 2nd degree murder for his role in the Dec. ...