CALUMET — The first Farmers Market of 2020, which took place on Fifth Street on June 20, was more successful than anticipated, according to Main Street Calumet Executive Director, Leah Polzien. “We had a great day,” Polzien said. “Our farmers were not sure what to expect, and they ...

Editor’s note: This story serves as the introduction to our coverage of important moments in both the American struggle for independence and the Civil War as significant dates overlap. This week, 157 years ago, the Battle of Gettysburg was fought. The Battle of Gettysburg was not only the ...

HOUGHTON — Local activists asked the Houghton City Council to consider shifting police funding to other resources, while Chief John Donnelly praised the department’s training and community involvement.  Defunding the police has been one of the most frequent suggestions raised by ...

HOUGHTON — The creator of the “All Business is Essential” campaign is planning a Fourth of July party for the community on his property in Tamarack City.  The event will start 6 p.m., Friday, July 3. He will host the event on 10 acres of private property at the Point in Tamarack ...

“I’ll see you in November,” is phrase coming up more and more in U.S. politics as election season comes around again. The U.S. presidential election is not the only race voters should be interested in. Every voter has an interest in state and local level governments, too. Whitehouse.gov ...

HOUGHTON — The organizers of Saturday’s inaugural Waste Reduction Drive came up with the idea, they figured it would go one of two ways: really good or really bad.  They were “floored” by what they saw.  “This event has shown me how sustainably-minded our community is,” said ...

In their 2006 report, engineers gave the Ford Dam a very positive review. “The overall condition of the earthen dam appears to be good,” the report concluded. It noted the high hazard potential of the dam, with U.S. 41 and a fiber optic cable run along the crest at risk of being washed ...

Editor’s note: This story is the sixth in a series looking at racial disparity in Michigan. This is also the first of a two-part look at how drugs became pervasive in Detroit in the mid-to-late 1980s. The late 1980s and 1990s was a very tumultuous time in Detroit, also known as America’s ...

HANCOCK — The Defund the Police movement currently sweeping the nation was a non-issue locally. That is, until the June 17 City Council meeting, when council members William Lytle and John Haeussler made it a topic for discussion when they threw their support behind two community members who ...

HOUGHTON — Recreational marijuana sales are closer to becoming a reality in Houghton.  The city council approved a special-use permit Wednesday for Northern Specialty Health, a medical marijuana dispensary that is looking to expand into the recreational market. It also scheduled public ...

HOUGHTON — The Houghton Planning Commission heard a preliminary concept for a hotel next to the Franklin Square Inn at its meeting Tuesday.  Jon Julien, who also owns the Franklin Square Inn and The Vault, presented his plans for the site, now housing vacant buildings between the Franklin ...

HOUGHTON — On Thursday morning, the Houghton County Sheriff’s Office was alerted as to a man slumped in his vehicle, parked in front of the Sheriff’s Office, according to a release from that agency. Deputies identified him as a 32-year-old Hancock man, who was nodding off and passing ...

HOUGHTON — The City of Houghton is facing a civil suit alleging meetings of the Lakeshore Drive Redevelopment Committee violated the state’s Open Meetings Act. Benjamin Ciavola, Marilyn Cooper and Frank Fiala are named as plaintiffs in the complaint, which attorney Evan Dixon ...

HANCOCK — In an open letter to the members of the Hancock City Council, the City Police Department responded to comments made at the June 17 council meeting regarding defunding the police. The letter also mentioned comments made to, and in, the Daily Mining Gazette. “Since the council ...

HOUGHTON — Michigan Technological University’s Sustainability Demonstration House (SDH) has announced it will host The Keweenaw’s First Waste Reduction Drive from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, June 27, in the Michigan Tech Lot 24 parking lot. In a Wednesday release, The Sustainability ...

How much waste can we save from the landfill as a community? This is a question the MTU Sustainability Demonstration House is asking during its The Keweenaw’s First Waste Reduction Drive, this Saturday, from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. at Michigan Tech’s Lot 24, on Sharon Avenue in Houghton, near the ...

The Calumet Dam across Slaughterhouse Creek in Calumet Township has received increasingly negative ratings from the state for the condition of its spillway and embankments. However, the hazards in the event the dam fails are negligible, and the excess capacity of the dam makes heavy runoff ...

There are 22 dams regulated by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy in the four-county region covered by the Gazette. An additional dam, Prickett Dam, is regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Of the dams registered with EGLE, twenty are regulated ...

HANCOCK — The District Library opened for physical entrance and book check-out Monday, after months of being open only to students for curbside pick-up. The library was closed to entry on June 8, limiting its operations to providing curbside pick-up services for library materials after Gov. ...

HOUGHTON — Isle Royale National Park will start increasing recreational access to the park this weekend. The decision comes after guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the State of Michigan and local public health authorities, the park said in a ...