HOUGHTON – People passing by the Student Development Center (SDC) at Michigan Technological University (MTU) this week caught a glimpse of an unusual winter ritual: a student equipping a fire hose purposefully creating a sheet of ice. They worked in preparations for today’s Winter Baja ...

HOUGHTON – Recently, stories have run rampant that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have come to Houghton and were refused reservations at a local hotel. People on social media have been active in posts such as the following: “Ice agents are allegedly in Houghton ...

LANSING — Four former Michigan governors will join forces next week to push for civil discourse amid rising national political tensions that organizers say is “pulling us apart” as a country. Former Republican Govs. John Engler and Rick Snyder, along with former Democratic Govs. Jim ...

HOUGHTON — The people who decorated downtown Houghton with nearly 200 colorful wooden fish last summer are back, and this time they'll be putting up stars. At Wednesday's regular meeting of the Houghton City Council, Julie Waara of the City of Houghton Beautification Committee and Elise ...

HOUGHTON – At Thursday's Sharon Avenue Property Committee meeting, committee member Todd LaRoux, who is also the Houghton County Building Dept. manager, introduced a proposal to spare the former church building on Sharon Avenue. Last October,the committee unanimously passed a motion which ...

This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com. LANSING — Cougars were detected 31 times in Michigan in 2025, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. That’s the highest number ...