Lucille (Franz) Paavola, 87, a longtime resident of Hancock and current resident of Arbor Green Senior Living in Houghton passed away Thursday, March 23. Born December 12, 1935, to Elona (Beckman) and Arvid Franz, she grew up in Dollar Bay and graduated from Dollar Bay High School in 1953 ...

HANCOCK — The Hancock City Council will continue to livestream meetings on Zoom, though a decision on whether to return to one meeting a month will wait until all councilors attend the meeting. In a 5-0 vote, the council voted to continue providing a Zoom feed for residents to watch ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Roads reopened Thursday in storm-besieged Buffalo as authorities continued searching for people who may have died or are stuck and suffering after last week’s blizzard. The driving ban in New York’s second-most-populous city was lifted just after midnight Thursday, Mayor ...

Agnes C. Isaacson passed away on November 29, 2022 at Canalview – Houghton County. She was born October 14, 1927, to Virginia (Hodges) and Anton Stukel as the second of ten children, Agnes was a lifelong resident of the Copper Country and matriarch of the Stukel clan, who at 95 was preceded ...

President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday announced the infusion of nearly $36 billion to shore up a financially troubled union pension plan, preventing severe cuts to the retirement incomes of about 350,000 Teamster workers and retirees across the United States. The money for ...

By LIAM OLIVER and DR. SIGRID RESH lmoliver@mtu.edu, scresh@mtu.edu Are you trying to select your landscaping plants for next year? Here’s why you should avoid Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii) and its cultivars. Japanese barberry is a common woody ornamental plant that might be ...