HOUGHTON – Michigan Tech announced Friday plans for the Chang K. Park Center for Student Wellness, a facility that will expand holistic student care on campus. The University says the new center will bring together key student support services, currently distributed across more than 30 ...

HOUGHTON – The solid waste transfer station, located in Atlantic Mine, owned and operated by Houghton County, is one of five properties being looked at by the Houghton County-Held Properties Committee. Materials Management Manager Curt Judson, a member of the committee, discussed the ...

LANSING — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer this week unveiled her $3 billion “MI Road Ahead” Plan, her latest pitch for “fixing the damn roads,” which was her signature campaign promise during her first gubernatorial campaign in 2018. Whitmer’s office touted the effort as “fiscally ...

A U.P. Republican has teamed with a Lower Michigan Democrat to sponsor legislation recently introduced in the Michigan Senate to create a new oversight committee covering both chambers of the Legislature, and would include an equal number of representatives and senators from both sides of the ...

ESCANABA — The fate of what remains of Ecanaba's House of Ludington is yet unknown. Fundraisers for the people immediately affected — the nine displaced tenants and 14 employees — are underway. A large and difficult-to-battle fire had raged on the upper floor of the historic building — ...

HOUGHTON – Tuesday’s Houghton County Board of Commissioners meeting attracted more than 400 residents to the Courthouse regarding a proposed resolution declaring there are only two sexes, which are determined by XY Chromosomes and XX Chromosomes. During the public comment period of the ...