HOUGHTON — A former Houghton police officer was sentenced to three months in jail for possession of methamphetamine in Houghton County Circuit Court Monday. Scott Monette, 55, also received 18 months of 7411 probation, which allows convictions for some first-time drug offenders to be ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the corrected version of this article, reflecting John Kern's comments to the board. Kern does not own STRs in Bete Grise. EAGLE RIVER — The Keweenaw County Planning Commission’s priority is currently to update the Master Plan, which expired in September 2023. While the commission obtained a one-year extension to finalize the update, there are challenges facing the commission that did not exist when the plan was adopted by the County in 2018. One challenge is the purchase of more than 32,000 acres of timber forest land by The Nature Conservancy. The other ...
IRON RIVER — An 80-year-old man was found dead after an Iron River house exploded Saturday night, according to Michigan State Police. The blast at 820 Cayuga St. was reported at about 9:30 p.m. and debris was scattered as far as three blocks away, state police said in a news release. The man who was found dead in the mostly destroyed home had just moved there from Florida. Authorities do not suspect criminal activity, but the fire remains under investigation. There were no reports at this time of other injuries. Troopers from the Iron Mountain post and neighboring posts responded ...
By GARRETT NEESE gneese@mininggazette.com HANCOCK — Local nonprofits are getting more than $850,000 this week from the Copper Shores Community Health Foundation’s Giving Tuesday campaign. The global campaign to encourage philanthropy takes place every year on the Tuesday after ...
The Keweenaw Peninsula is in the midst of an unseasonably warm period that has plagued many snow-based activities and businesses. Although the area has already received more snow than the record low of 81.3” in 1930-31, the warm temperatures have rapidly decreased the snowpack in the ...
HANCOCK — Rags, branches, leaves, rusty nails — the things many people might pass by or discard provide the inspiration, and sometimes the source material, for Cynthia Coté’s art. Coté’s exhibit “Requiem for the Overlooked,” will be shown at the Finlandia Art Gallery from ...
