HOUGHTON — The purchase of a new app to let Houghton County residents look up which inmates are in the county jail is on hold while the county board seeks more answers about it from the sheriff’s department. The board voted 3-2 Tuesday afternoon against a package from OCV including mobile ...

Editors note: This is the second in a series that examines the increase in food insecurity in the four-county area, and the impacts the issue is causing. For many people, an electric fireplace conjures thoughts of quiet winter nights with a cup of hot tea while enjoying the projected flames ...

Charles Lester Knuckles, Jr., 31, of Roseville, Michigan, was sentenced to 132 months (11 years) in federal prison for leading a conspiracy that trafficked over 500 grams of methamphetamine from Detroit to Houghton and Mackinac counties in December 2022 and January 2023. In a Nov. 13 release ...

HOUGHTON — A number of write-in candidates in the Copper Country filed by the Oct. 25 deadline to be added to the November ballot. Candidates ran in Houghton, Keweenaw and Ontonagon counties; none had filed in Baraga.  Houghton County At the county level, Teresa Karinemi filed to run ...

SOUTH RANGE — The South Range Fourth of July Committee has announced its Second Annual Big Bucks Hunters Ball, Michael Renier, committee president said. The event is from 7-11 p.m., Saturday, November 9, at VWF hall, on South Baltic Avenue, in South Range. Slick Nickel, who performed at ...

HOUGHTON — With 17 days left to go before Election Day, Chasten Buttigieg had a message for Houghton County Democrats looking to get out and volunteer: Campaigning can’t just be yard signs and Facebook memes. “The best thing you can do right now is knock on doors and tell your ...