CALUMET — CopperDog organizers announced Monday that due to current and forecasted weather conditions, there have been major modifications to the events, which are scheduled for March 1-3. While the CopperPull and CopperDash will still occur, the CopperDog 150, CopperDog 80, CopperDog 30 ...
HANCOCK — New gun laws took effect in Michigan Tuesday, a year to the day of the Michigan State University shooting that killed three people. The package of bills taking effect includes a secure storage law, which requires people to keep unattended weapons unloaded and secured with a ...
HOUGHTON — A Lake Linden man arrested in July as part of a multiagency child sex sting operation involving undercover officers was sentenced to a year in jail in Houghton County Circuit Court Monday after the judge decided the original plea agreement was insufficient. Trenton Kyllonen, 37, ...
HOUGHTON — A former Houghton police officer was sentenced to three months in jail for possession of methamphetamine in Houghton County Circuit Court Monday. Scott Monette, 55, also received 18 months of 7411 probation, which allows convictions for some first-time drug offenders to be ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the corrected version of this article, reflecting John Kern's comments to the board. Kern does not own STRs in Bete Grise. EAGLE RIVER — The Keweenaw County Planning Commission’s priority is currently to update the Master Plan, which expired in September 2023. While the commission obtained a one-year extension to finalize the update, there are challenges facing the commission that did not exist when the plan was adopted by the County in 2018. One challenge is the purchase of more than 32,000 acres of timber forest land by The Nature Conservancy. The other ...
IRON RIVER — An 80-year-old man was found dead after an Iron River house exploded Saturday night, according to Michigan State Police. The blast at 820 Cayuga St. was reported at about 9:30 p.m. and debris was scattered as far as three blocks away, state police said in a news release. The man who was found dead in the mostly destroyed home had just moved there from Florida. Authorities do not suspect criminal activity, but the fire remains under investigation. There were no reports at this time of other injuries. Troopers from the Iron Mountain post and neighboring posts responded ...
