HOUGHTON — The Michigan Department of Transportation and the city of Houghton are investing about $416,000 to construct a downtown connector route designed to reduce severe traffic backups on M-26 approaching the Portage Lake Lift Bridge. The infrastructure changes come as local officials ...
HANCOCK — Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s office announced Monday long-term $2 billion annual fund disbursements have been awarded to counties and municipalities in an effort to deliver on the governor’s 2018 campaign promise of “fixing the damn roads.” Several townships and cities in ...
Editor's note: This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com. GOGEBIC COUNTY — Opponents are going to court in hopes of blocking a controversial $50 million grant Michigan awarded in August to ...
HOUGHTON — Students, faculty and staff from the Michigan Tech Voter Engagement Coalition were spread out across campus Tuesday in hopes of getting Huskies registered to vote and to inform them on how to be engaged with their communities. National Voter Registration Day this year was ...
HOUGHTON — Three sentences were handed down in 12th Circuit Court Monday by Judge Brittany Bulleit. 23-year old Houghton resident Brnden Patterson was sentenced to ten months in jail and two years of probation for third degree home invasion and aggravated assault for an incident in April. ...
CALUMET — An armed standoff in Calumet Tuesday morning ended with one subject taken into custody with no apparent injuries. Details of the hours-long confrontation between an apparently armed suspect and numerous law enforcement officers are still awaiting a formal press release from the ...
