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A new commander

GLADSTONE — The Michigan State Police (MSP) announced the selection of F/Lt. Patrick Janisse as the new commander of the Gladstone Post. According to an MSP press release, Janisse brings more than a decade of dedicated service to Delta and Schoolcraft counties. A native of Elk Rapids, ...

Not ending soon

HOUGHTON – Winter weather returned this week with a severe storm after a false spring brought above-normal temperatures over the previous 10 days. Wednesday’s storm dumped more than 20 inches of wet, heavy snow, driven by high east winds, on the Keweenaw. On Friday, another weather system ...

Store Safely off to a good start

MARQUETTE COUNTY — Cynthia Ewell Foster, a University of Michigan clinical professor of psychiatry, began piloting a program in Marquette several years ago to encourage secure storage of firearms in partnership with Sarah Derwin of the Marquette County Health Department, as well as Cheryl ...

Mission accomplished

MARQUETTE — A cooperative moose research team, including the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Northern Michigan University and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, has concluded its efforts to capture and collar moose in the core moose population area in the western Upper Peninsula for ...

Laurium ready for Copper Dog

LAURIUM – The annual CopperDog sled dog race is a week away, and the village of Laurium is ready. Village Manager Ian Lewis has been working with CopperDog organizers since they announced in June, 2025 that the race will begin in Calumet, but finish in Laurium for the first time. The ...

It’s ski jump weekend

IRON MOUNTAIN — Clemens Aigner, a 33-year-old Austrian who holds the record for the longest jump in Pine Mountain’s storied history, heads a field of 40 jumpers competing this weekend in the Sanford Health Marshfield Clinic FIS Continental Cup at Giant Pine Mt. outside of Iron ...