There’s nothing much scarier than finding out you have breast cancer. Your mind’s awhirl. “What do I do now? What does the future hold? How am I going to get through this?” In the Keweenaw, a support group called Women Living with Cancer is here to help. “We are your cancer ...

HANCOCK — St. Vincent de Paul Society is a worldwide Catholic lay organization with nearly 700,000 people. Headquartered in Paris, France, “St. Vinny’s” as it is affectionately called locally, helps people living in poverty in 142 countries on five continents. In the Upper Peninsula, ...

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 ...

By JENNIFER DONOVAN For the Mining Gazette Karin Cooper is a woman who has risen to the top in a profession where men outnumber women three to one—architecture. And her gender actually has been an advantage, not a roadblock, says Cooper, project architect at U.P. Engineers and Architects ...

CALUMET — In business terms, vertical integration is an arrangement by which a company controls different stages along the supply chain. Frozen Farms Company, headquartered in the village of Calumet, has achieved this. Rather than relying on external suppliers like grocery distributors, ...

L’ANSE — Ambition has never been in question for Susan Jacobs, funeral director and owner of Jacobson Funeral Home in L’Anse. Jacobs moved to L’Anse in 1999 when her expanding family led her to pursue her own business by purchasing both Sirard Funeral Home in Baraga and Jacobson in ...