The Salvation Army plays a major role in giving families in need a merry Christmas. The local branch in Hancock joins the national collection for toys and gifts for the area’s neediest children with its Copper Country Angel Tree project. The Angel Tree is a great way for area residents to ...

HOUGHTON — The Copper Shores Community Health Foundation celebrated Giving Tuesday with an all-day event at the Copper Country Mall where people could donate to non-profits in person, and also talk with them to learn about their services to the community. Copper Shores had previously hosted ...

When Timothy O’Shea went to work for Edwin Hulbert at the Calumet Mine, on January 1, 1866, work at the Hecla mine, immediately to the south, had not started yet. But the Hecla paid its first dividend on December 15, 1869, nearly eight months before the Calumet mine paid its first dividend. ...

The human body is prone to all manner of maladies and morbidities. From a stubbed toe all the way to a heart attack, medical care is required for a plethora of conditions, illnesses, and injuries, resulting in a list of ailments that is (unfortunately) nearly endless. Most of the medical ...

More and more people want green or natural burial. They don’t want to be embalmed or encased in vaults. They want their bodies to return to and nourish the earth. But it’s up to cemeteries whether they allow green burial and how they handle it. How are the cemeteries in the Keweenaw ...

November has a contest of sorts and it’s National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. The idea is that for the month of November you will write 50,000 words, a novel, straight through with no editing. I’ve participated multiple times over the years with my best effort being a time travel ...