HOUGHTON — The Michigan Tech Huskies men’s basketball team had, by all accounts, a very strong weekend in Duluth, Minnesota, last weekend, falling to No. 6 Minnesota-Duluth, 80-70, and then defeating No.3 Minnesota State-Moorhead, 74-70. However, coach Josh Buettner’s team does not get ...

L’ANSE — The L’Anse Village Council held its second meeting of the month on Monday. The Council received reports that the village’s Christmas lights have been put up and that the snow equipment is at the ready for the arrival of winter. The biggest news to be reported to the Council ...

HOUGHTON — Two Ohio residents are lodged in the Houghton County Jail after allegedly buying items in Houghton as part of a larger-scale operation involving purchases with stolen credit cards that has been targeting towns throughout the Midwest. On Nov. 7, the Houghton Police Department ...

HANCOCK — Meals and holidays are meant to be shared, said Carol Korpela.  “To prepare a meal for one person, yourself, if you’re alone on the holiday, it can even just make that isolation and loneliness feel even worse,” said Korpela, executive director of Little Brothers - Friends ...

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series that examines the increase in food insecurity in the four-county area, and the impacts the issue is causing. According to the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA ERS), a food secure household means that every ...

According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), nationwide over 38 million Americans have diabetes with nearly 98 million exhibiting prediabetes. The ADA notes that over the past 20 years the number of people diagnosed with diabetes has more than doubled. What is Diabetes Rochester, ...