HOUGHTON — Even for the select few who make it onto the “Jeopardy!” stage, being picked is usually a once-in-a-lifetime experience. For Holly Hassel, it was twice in a life. Hassel, a Calumet resident and professor and director of composition at Michigan Technological University, ...

HOUGHTON — “How will you live the dream?” The statement on the back of the program for Michigan Technological University’s Martin Luther King Day celebration Monday exhorted people to think about how they would live up to King’s vision. The thread continued through Monday’s ...

HOUGHTON — The Huskies Pep Band mourned one of its members with a candlelight vigil at the Husky statue Wednesday night. Kenny Bragg died in a house explosion while visiting relatives downstate in December. His parents, Don and Hope Bragg, both Michigan Tech alumni, were also killed, as ...

RIPLEY — Long lines of skies and snowboarders came out Saturday for the reopening of Mont Ripley. The Michigan Technological University ski hill had opened in December, but shut down again before Christmas due to abnormally warm temperatures and rain. There’d been 4 inches of rain in ...

The Michigan Tech community reacts to a student’s death in a downstate explosion in late December. Senior Kenny Bragg died in a house explosion on Dec. 30 near Whitmore Lake, Michigan, along with his parents and sister: Hope Bragg, Don Bragg and Elizabeth Bragg. Richard Pruden, Kenny’s ...

HOUGHTON — A Michigan Technological University student was one of four family members, including two Tech alumni, killed in a home explosion last week in Washtenaw County. Tech senior Kenny Bragg, his sister Elizabeth Bragg, and his parents Don and Hope Bragg were killed Saturday in the ...