IRON MOUNTAIN — The Upper Peninsula’s not seasonally adjusted unemployment rate climbed to 6.2% in December as the number of jobless workers grew by an estimated 1,200 since November, according to data released by the Michigan Department of Technology Management and Budget. “Most ...
MARQUETTE — Three Upper Michigan college students have been selected to participate in the third cohort of NMU's Rural Leadership Fellowship Program, a public-private partnership with InvestUP that promotes immersive, project-based learning while also supporting U.P. economic and community ...
Dear Readers, This time of year, my inbox fills with the same quiet sentence written a hundred different ways: "I'm tired of being the reasonable one." It comes from the woman hosting Sunday dinner who gets criticized no matter what she serves. The man who keeps lending money to a sibling who ...
BRAMPTON — Two people where injured in a car-train accident in rural Delta County Thursday afternoon. A team of uniformed responders from various agencies carried a stretcher through the snow, away from railroad tracks and a red Toyota pickup truck that lay on its side with the top cut off. A ...
HOUGHTON – People passing by the Student Development Center (SDC) at Michigan Technological University (MTU) this week caught a glimpse of an unusual winter ritual: a student equipping a fire hose purposefully creating a sheet of ice. They worked in preparations for today’s Winter Baja ...
HOUGHTON – Recently, stories have run rampant that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have come to Houghton and were refused reservations at a local hotel. People on social media have been active in posts such as the following: “Ice agents are allegedly in Houghton ...