L’ANSE — The L’Anse Area Schools Board of Education held its monthly meeting on Monday evening and approved a variety of motions. The board approved the motion for the baseball co-op between L’Anse Area Schools and Baraga Area Schools for the Spring of 2025. The board then went on to ...

HOUGHTON — The Houghton Zoning Board of Appeals approved a rear-yard variance for a home where constructors had not filed an updated permit request at its meeting Wednesday night preceding the regular Houghton City Council meeting. The 10-foot, 4-inch variance at 205 W. Douglass Ave. ...

HOUGHTON — At the Carnegie Museum of the Keweenaw Saturday, children built stable bridges, watched chemical reactions unfold and turned fruit into music. It happened at the Mind Trekkers’ STEM Open House, where the Michigan Technological University group taught children about science, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...