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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...