HOUGHTON — The home of the Michigan Tech Huskies, the John MacInnes Student Ice Arena, will be closed this spring and summer for overdue facility maintenance. The renovation project will begin after spring commencement and will be completed in mid-August. During the closure, crews will be ...

MARQUETTE — After a little more than two hours of deliberation, a federal jury found a former Michigan Technological University student guilty on two counts related to anti-Semitic vandalism at Temple Jacob in Hancock. Nathan Weeden, 23, sprayed swastikas and other anti-Semitic symbols on ...

MARQUETTE — The case of a Hancock man charged with spraying anti-Semitic graffiti on Temple Jacob in Hancock will head to the jury Thursday. The prosecution and defense both rested their cases in the trial of Nathan Weeden, which concluded its third day Wednesday in U.S. District Court in ...

Several communities across the state, including many in the western Upper Peninsula, have received grants through Michigan’s Rural Readiness Program. The competitive, reimbursement grants can total as much as $50,000. With reimbursement grants, recipients receive the funds after they have ...

Lately, there has been discussion about glass recycling which seems to have led to some confusion. Let’s attempt to clarify the situation. Glass is currently accepted in both Hancock and Houghton curbside recycling and at the Houghton County Transfer Station on Wednesdays. Waste Management ...

MARQUETTE — The federal trial of a Hancock man accused of spraypainting anti-Semitic graffiti on Temple Jacob continued Tuesday with witnesses including agents who had interviewed him and a former member of the same white supremacist group who’d been part of the discussions before defacing ...