While the southern part of the Copper Country got its first dose of winter driving Monday morning, Keweenaw County did not receive as much snow as its neighbors to the south. Sheriff Curt Pennala said his office did not receive any calls of mishaps, crashes or motorists in trouble. “For ...

CALUMET TOWNSHIP — For a number of years Ruth Gleckler has led a group of volunteers in cleaning up the Hecla Cemetery, on Cemetery Street, removing brush, clearing walking paths through the cemetery, and working to preserve head stones. On September 23, her group conducted another round of ...

HOUGHTON — It began in Ruston, Louisiana, a small rural town with a technical university, where four high-school friends — Robert Schneider, Bill Doss, Will Cullen Hart and Jeff Mangum — began making home recordings inspired by ‘60s pop and psychedelia. For college, Schneider moved ...

November is here, and there are three fantastic art events coming to the Copper Country! The first one, happening tonight at the Carnegie Museum, is a tribute to Mary Biekkola Wright, a champion “can-do” community artist who I first met at the Art Center in Hancock where she had prepared ...

HANCOCK — This Saturday, residents are being asked to leave out food in the morning to help out area seniors as part of Little Brothers - Friends of the Elderly’s annual food drive. Members of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity brothers will be picking up bags in Atlantic Mine, Calumet, ...

HOUGHTON — Houghton County buildings have been upgraded with modern lighting through a free Upper Peninsula Power Co. program. Crews replaced mercury vapor fluorescent bulbs with 400 LED bulbs in the county courthouse Tuesday night. “UPPCO sent us a note maybe a month or two ago that ...