HOUGHTON — On any given day, Cynthia Crabtree’s patrols might bring her into contact with speeders, vandals or loiterers. Monday afternoon, the Houghton police officer was tackling another item that had popped onto her radar: roadside trash.  Crabtree and parking enforcement officer ...

The remains of a 7-year-old boy who was found in a culvert in Mequon, Wisconsin, 65 years ago was laid to rest last Friday, Nov. 15. A funeral Mass of Christian Burial was held Friday at St. Peter of Alcantara Church in Port Washington, Wisconsin, according to the Associated Press, followed ...

CHASSELL— The old boardwalk along the shore of Pike Bay in Centennial Park has has been removed with its updated replacement under construction by MJO Contracting. The old boardwalk, which attached itself to two fishing piers, has been in continuous deterioration for the past few years, and ...

Garrett Neese/Daily Mining Gazette Traffic is seen backed up on Memorial Drive in Houghton after a three-vehicle personal injury crash shortly before noon Monday morning. One person was injured in the crash and transported to UP Health - Portage by Mercy EMS, the Houghton County Sheriff’s ...

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series that examines the increase in food insecurity in the four-county area, and the impacts the issue is causing. Opportunity cost is money or benefits lost by not selecting a particular option during the decision-making process. Opportunity cost is ...

EAGLE RIVER — The Keweenaw County Board last week approved a proposal for a $75,000 reimbursement grant for an updated county master plan. Bob Pokorski, with the county Planning Commission, told the board at its regular November meeting that County Attorney Chuck Miller initially had ...