HOUGHTON — The thinned-out, pockmarked H-pile beam would look unexceptional in a junkyard. At its spot near the Houghton City Council dais Wednesday night, it looked out of place. In the spot it had been for the previous 45 years, helping keep up the Lakeshore Drive parking deck, it was ...
EAGLE RIVER — Julia Petersen, Keweenaw Heartlands project manager with the Nature Conservancy of Michigan, provided an outline for recommended governance model of the Heartlands property moving forward at the Wednesday Keweenaw County board meeting. The purpose of Petersen presenting the ...
HOUGHTON — Houghton’s battle with Walmart over taxes is nearing an end. The Houghton City Council Wednesday approved a settlement agreement with Walmart regarding the city’s civil suit in U.S. District Court. The settlement lays out the terms of a new service agreement with Walmart ...
HOUGHTON — As construction workers move around the basement of Swift Hardware preparing it for its next leap, owner Marilyn Swift stands in her father’s old downstairs office, reflecting on how far she and the company have come. Swift became the first female owner in the store’s ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Senate marches ahead with a bipartisan approach to prevent a government shutdown, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is back to square one — asking his hard-right Republicans to do what they have said they would never do: approve their own temporary House measure to keep ...
HOUGHTON — The Houghton Planning Commission took steps Tuesday to determine what redevelopment could look like on the Keweenaw Chamber of Commerce office site and adjacent lots on College Avenue. The City of Houghton owns the Hodge Center, where the chamber is located, and the surrounding ...