HANCOCK — Volunteers spent Saturday morning helping to get a new trail system in Hancock ready for the community. The trail, nearly three-quarters of a mile long, runs from Glad Tidings Church property to the Barkell Elementary School, without crossing any streets. The connection had ...

HOUGHTON — They never know what it will be, only that it will help. As the Ranger III was unloaded shortly after docking Thursday afternoon, representatives from the Copper Shores Meals on Wheels stood by for a highly anticipated gift: the annual donation of surplus flood from the Rock ...

FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP — The Quincy-Franklin-Hancock Townships Volunteer Fire Department conducted an Open House on Thursday evening, at the fire hall on Sunshine Road, which members said is intended to become an annual event. “We just wanted to let people come in and see what their what their ...

EAGLE HARBOR — After more than a year of delays and technical problems, Pasty.net finally got the okay to make upgrades to its wireless internet equipment from the Keweenaw County Board at its regular Sept. meeting on Wednesday. The upgrades will be made on the tower located between the ...

HOUGHTON — The Lakeshore Drive streetscape project took another step toward completion as paving of the east parking lot started Thursday. Both the east and west lots should be fully paved by Monday, City Manager Eric Waara said at Wednesday’s City Council meeting. “The plan is that ...

HOUGHTON — The thinned-out, pockmarked H-pile beam would look unexceptional in a junkyard. At its spot near the Houghton City Council dais Wednesday night, it looked out of place. In the spot it had been for the previous 45 years, helping keep up the Lakeshore Drive parking deck, it was ...