HOUGHTON — Michigan Tech student volunteers will offer adults assistance with technological issues with their mobile devices and computers and will hold two informational workshops free of charge as part of Digital Help Day Saturday, Dec. 6 at the Portage Lake District Library. The students ...

ESCANABA — Several Upper Peninsula lawmakers are seeking to rename a stretch of U.S. 41 in Menominee County to honor a soldier killed in Iraq in 2007: Spc. David Anthony Wilkey Jr., who was raised in Wilson and still has family in the area. Michigan House Bill No. 4351, introduced in April ...

WAKEFIELD — The Michigan State Police (MSP) Wakefield Post announced the recent promotion of a new sergeant. Sergeant James Gilmer has been a member of the MSP for more than twenty-five years prior to this promotion. Gilmer grew up in Bergland, Michigan, before his family moved to Ontonagon. ...

HOUGHTON — Maritime historian and author Frederick Stonehouse held a presentation on the Edmund Fitzgerald at Michigan Tech’s Memorial Union Building Saturday evening. The event was presented by the Van Pelt and Opie Library, Potage Lake District Library, The Library Network and ...

KINGSFORD — One person died early Saturday in a fire in an apartment building in Kingsford. Kingsford Public Safety officers on patrol discovered the active structure fire at 229 E. Breitung Ave. about 1:26 a.m. Saturday, Kingsford Public Safety Department Director Brandon Rutter said in a ...