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Can the herd be saved?

Iron Mountain wants to close a costly deer pen that has attracted visitors to its City Park since at least the 1940s, but officials just can’t figure out what to do with the sickly deer inside. Officials scrapped initial plans to shoot the animals in the pen, which had sparked public ...

Mt. Bohemia in Catch-22

KEWEENAW COUNTY – For the past two and a half years, Mount Bohemia ski resort has been negotiating with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) for the purchase of 775 acres of leased land, most of which is ski terrain, according Mount Bohemia owner Lonie Glieberman. Bohemia owns about 300 acres of the ...

Murder suspect waives extradition

A Marinette County man accused of killing his girlfriend agreed Friday not to fight being brought back from Minnesota to face a first-degree intentional homicide charge. Robert Alan Chilcote, 29, of Porterfield, Wis., appeared virtually in Wright County District Court in Minnesota to waive ...

Two men from UP busted downstate

Two men from Ishpeming were arrested on Feb. 10 downstate in Roscommon County and arraigned on methamphetamine charges. At approximately 2:15 a.m. on Feb. 10, troopers from the Michigan State Police Houghton Lake post conducted a stop on I-75 in Richfield Township for a traffic ...

Mother Nature wins!

IRON MOUNTAIN — For the first time in 23 years, the Kiwanis Ski Club in Iron Mountain, lost its entire weekend of ski jumping at Giant Pine Mountain due to the weather — and the sport’s governing body lost one of its favorite events on the International Continental Cup circuit. “It’s ...

Where do we put it?

HOUGHTON COUNTY – As heavier than normal snowfall continues to pile up, residents are beginning to show their frustration over how to get it out of driveways. On Saturday, the Houghton Police Dept responded to a snow plowing complaint on East Street. The next day, they responded to another ...