HOUGHTON — Houghton County buildings have been upgraded with modern lighting through a free Upper Peninsula Power Co. program. Crews replaced mercury vapor fluorescent bulbs with 400 LED bulbs in the county courthouse Tuesday night. “UPPCO sent us a note maybe a month or two ago that ...

Children deserve the tastiest, freshest foods possible. The Western Upper Peninsula Planning and Development Region (WUPPDR) is excited to announce the Western U.P. Farm to School project. Over the next two years, this project will partner with the Copper Country Intermediate School District ...

HOUGHTON — Winter has arrived, at least temporarily. The Copper Country got hit with the first snowstorm of the season Monday, with more on the way. Early Monday morning, the southern part of the Copper Country was getting hit the hardest, the National Weather Service said. A station at ...

HANCOCK — Portage Lake District Library (PLDL) Director Katrina Linde-Moriarty addressed the Hancock School Board earlier this month on the topic of an eight-month extension on the contract between the Hancock School Public Library and the PLDL. The extension is requested to align the ...

HOUGHTON — A new prosecutor has been appointed in Houghton County. Dan Helmer was named to the post by 12th Circuit Court Judge Brittany Bulleit. He comes to the post from Kent County, where he has been an assistant prosecutor since graduating from law school in 2011. Helmer graduated ...

HANCOCK — On Oct. 22, 1973, 29 households attended a meeting at Funkey’s Karma Kafe in Houghton to decide on whether to start a local food co-op. Fifty years later, the Keweenaw Co-op celebrated 50 years of operation Saturday with four hours of food, wine, coloring and camaraderie. ...