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Business

MEDC, SBDC hosting briefing Friday for businesses impacted by warm winter

HOUGHTON — This year’s extremely mild winter weather has profoundly impacted many small businesses across Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. In order to share information about resources that are available to support and assist negatively impacted businesses, the Michigan Economic Development ...

Criticism voiced at public hearing

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources received harsh criticism from attendees of a public hearing Wednesday on the proposed leasing of 10,000-plus acres of mineral rights across public lands in multiple Upper Peninsula counties to the Keweenaw Land Association. In the public comment ...

Registration open for Copper Shores 10th Anniversary Gala

Copper Shores Community Health Foundation will be hosting a 10th Anniversary Gala on Saturday, May 11, 2024, at the Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts from 5:30 to 11 p.m. Registration is currently open at coppershores.org/gala. In December 2013, the foundation separated from the Portage ...

Copperwood Mine Project grant OK’d

The Michigan Economic Development Corporation on Tuesday announced the Michigan Strategic Fund Board’s approval of a $50 million Strategic Site Readiness Program performance-based grant for Copperwood Resources Inc., a subsidiary of Highland Copper, for the construction of the Copperwood Mine ...

The Last Frontier gift shop closing its doors

COPPER HARBOR — The Last Frontier gift shop is closing its doors permanently in April, and the remaining inventory must be sold. “We’re downsizing,” said Country Village Shops owner Barb Foley, “so I won’t be completely retired. I just won’t be working quite as hard as I have ...

Getting in gear: Velodrome Coffee takes over MTU library cafe

HOUGHTON – Michigan Technological University students grabbing a coffee on their first day back from spring break were treated to a new look, and taste, at the library cafe. Monday was the first day of operations for Velodrome Coffee’s new location at Tech’s library. The cafe had ...