HOUGHTON — Registration and nominations are now open for the Keweenaw Community Spark Plug Awards Dinner, to be held on Thursday, March 12, at the Memorial Union Ballroom in Houghton. The Keweenaw Community Spark Plug Awards celebrate and recognize outstanding local businesses, ...

UPPER PENINSULA — Twelve books have been recommended by the Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors Association with the release of the organization’s Seventh-Annual U.P. Notable Books List. The UPPAA first initiated the effort in 2019 as a response to the lack of representation of U.P. ...

EAGLE RIVER — A resolution from Governor Gretchen Whitmer recognized yesterday (Jan. 9) as National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day. Her resolution states in part: Law enforcement officers, including police officers, sheriff's deputies, state troopers, federal agents, corrections officers, ...

HOUGHTON – With the Winter Solstice just behind us, January nights in the U.P. continue to be long affairs. What could be a better time of year to remind ourselves of the beauty and splendor on display after the Sun sets all over the world? At 7:30 p.m. Jan. 16, the Rozsa Center, on the ...

ESCANABA — The Escanaba High School girls basketball teams had an unexpected and frightening night Tuesday after leaving their game against Marquette when their school bus slid off an icy road and rolled on its side in a ditch. A few students were injured, none seriously. A passerby and ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — At about the same time a bus carrying girls basketball players slid off the road in Marquette County, icy conditions Tuesday night led a school bus to hit a towing rig on the shoulder of U.S. 2 near Alfredson Road in eastern Dickinson County. According to the Iron Mountain ...