HANCOCK — Sledders took to Quincy Green Saturday as part of the city’s annual Community Sledding Party. The hill, always a popular winter destination, was packed with families for the two-hour event. “We’ve got the best sledding hill in the Copper Country,” said Todd Gast, ...

Winter is practically here, and most plants have lost their leaves, woody invasive species, such as Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii), common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica), and glossy buckthorn (Frangula alnus), can still be managed during the winter months. They may be easier to manage ...

PORTAGE TOWNSHIP — Danielle Thoune was part of a circle of more than 20 people celebrating her new house Monday. Like her, many of them helped build it. Thoune and her son Jackson are the latest family to get a home through Copper Country Habitat for Humanity. The group held a ...

Timothy O’Shea arrived at the Calumet mine location in December of 1865. By all accounts the area was a wilderness, except for the clearing in the woods around the site. Edwin J. Hulbert was a civil engineer and surveyor who had worked at the Cliff Mine for several years, where he became ...

There’s nothing much scarier than finding out you have breast cancer. Your mind’s awhirl. “What do I do now? What does the future hold? How am I going to get through this?” In the Keweenaw, a support group called Women Living with Cancer is here to help. “We are your cancer ...

HANCOCK — St. Vincent de Paul Society is a worldwide Catholic lay organization with nearly 700,000 people. Headquartered in Paris, France, “St. Vinny’s” as it is affectionately called locally, helps people living in poverty in 142 countries on five continents. In the Upper Peninsula, ...