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Former C&H warehouse to become multi-park storage facility

CALUMET TOWNSHIP — A warehouse constructed by the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company in the late 19th century will again become a warehouse of sorts, not for mining wares, but for a number of parks under the National Park Service. Wyndeth Davis, director of the National Keweenaw Historical ...

Vehicle roll over crash

Houghton County Sheriff’s Office reported a one vehicle roll over crash Thursday, Oct. 12 at 11:10 p.m. Deputies from the Houghton County Sheriff’s office responded to the crash on Baulman Rd. near Upper Point Mills Rd. in Torch Lake township. The driver, a 20-year-old Dollar Bay man, ...

KNHP Advisory Commission discusses priority projects

CALUMET TOWNSHIP — Among the projects planned by the Keweenaw National Historical Park and the KNHP Advisory Commission are identifying and prioritizing abandoned mine sites for safety purposes, as well as historic preservation. During the Advisory Commission’s regular quarterly meeting ...

Baraga County EDC to partner with KBIC

BARAGA — The Baraga County Economic Development Corporation announced a new partnership with the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community at the end of an annual update Wednesday at the Ojibwa Casino. “This collaborative effort establishes the first true public-private-tribal partnership in Baraga ...

Makeover at Maasto Hiihto & Churning rapids trail system

The Swedetown Gorge trail, a section of the Maasto Hiihto/Churning rapids trail system that crisscrosses Swedetown Creek, was reopened Tuesday afternoon with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The gorge was devastated in the Father’s Day flood of 2018 knocking out several bridges and altering ...

Fire prevention week

The U.S. Fire Administration — an agency of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, reports that in 2021, fire departments responded to an estimated 170,000 cooking fires, which caused 135 deaths, 3,000 injuries and more than $494 million in property loss. This data is why The National ...