HOUGHTON COUNTY — Children’s author and online educator, Annette Gendler is visiting the Keweenaw today and tomorrow. She make an appearance tonight at Temple Jacob in Hancock, and at the Portage Lake District Library in Houghton Friday. Gendler is the author of “Natalie and the Nazi ...

CALUMET TOWNSHIP – Officials in Calumet Township and the villages of Calumet and Laurium are continuing their efforts to consolidate their fire departments into one authority. At the December, 2025 Village Council meeting, Laurium Village Manager Ian Lewis submitted proposed Articles of ...

CALUMET – The 300 block of Fifth Street in downtown Calumet was temporarily closed to traffic Monday evening after a garage attached to the south wall of the former Thurner bakery building, located at 315 collapsed. The Michigan State Police Calumet Post responded when the collapse was ...

HOUGHTON — Michigan Technological University hosted its Design Expo on Tuesday in the Memorial Union Ballroom and the Van Pelt and Opie Library. It featured first-year, senior design and enterprise teams as well as an image contest. This year's Design Expo featured cash awards totaling ...

HOUGHTON COUNTY – The Michigan Dept. of Education (MDE) announced last week that more than $24.2 million in CTE expansion grants have been awarded to 56 school districts across the state. The three-year competitive grants are designed to expand student access to high-quality CTE programs ...

ESCANABA — Instead of spending what was scheduled as the first day of summer at the beach, many U.P. students are looking at spending more time in the classroom. Several school districts have announced updated school calendars — or potential updates — to reflect the amount of snow days ...