HANCOCK — Superior National Bank held a seminar at the Finnish American Heritage Center Wednesday revolving around various types of fraud that individuals or businesses can fall victim to and how to avoid them. The seminar was presented by Superior National employees, Houghton Police and the ...

LANSING — Two trails in the northern Lower Peninsula are recipients of the 2025 Pure Michigan Trail designation, an annual recognition that spotlights some of the state’s best trail experiences. The Betsie Valley Trail, a 22-mile pathway extending from Frankfort through Elberta and Beulah ...

By the mid-20th century the people who still resided in the Copper Country truly demonstrated a rare quality of resilience and determination. A hundred years before, mining companies controlled just about everything, because they were the sole sources of revenue to develop the region. With very ...

HANCOCK — The Hancock City Council approved a water rate increase at its Wednesday meeting. The rate increase which will go into effect on May 16, was needed to pay debt obligations for three bonds from 2008, 2011 and 2016 and for city improvements. “This was done to improve the ...

HANCOCK – Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly (LBFE) has been busy this week preparing for about 1,050 Easter dinners to be served across nine sites on Sunday at nine separate sites across the Copper Country. “We serve elders 60 years and older who are alone or have nobody to share ...

Today is Thursday, April 17, the 107th day of 2025. There are 258 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 17, 1961, some 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in an attempt to topple Fidel Castro, whose forces crushed the incursion within three ...