CALUMET TOWNSHIP — An armed standoff lasting several hours Tuesday ended with one person taken into custody. On Wednesday, 40-year-old Andrey Vladimirovich Petrov, appeared in Houghton County 97th District Court. Petrov is charged with assaulting a police officer, resisting/obstructing. He ...
HOUGHTON — At last week’s regular meeting of Houghton City Council, Sargent Jason Tormala received council approval to become the new School Resource Officer for Houghton-Portage Township Schools (HPTS). Tormala aims to continue the new policy of having a school resource officer at HPTS, ...
HOUGHTON — The Michigan Department of Transportation and the city of Houghton are investing about $416,000 to construct a downtown connector route designed to reduce severe traffic backups on M-26 approaching the Portage Lake Lift Bridge. The infrastructure changes come as local officials ...
HANCOCK — Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s office announced Monday long-term $2 billion annual fund disbursements have been awarded to counties and municipalities in an effort to deliver on the governor’s 2018 campaign promise of “fixing the damn roads.” Several townships and cities in ...
Editor's note: This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com. GOGEBIC COUNTY — Opponents are going to court in hopes of blocking a controversial $50 million grant Michigan awarded in August to ...
HOUGHTON — Students, faculty and staff from the Michigan Tech Voter Engagement Coalition were spread out across campus Tuesday in hopes of getting Huskies registered to vote and to inform them on how to be engaged with their communities. National Voter Registration Day this year was ...
