HOUGHTON — Houghton Elementary School kids got the rock-star treatment Thursday during the annual Rock Your School event. As kids arrived Thursday morning, they were welcomed by live music by local musicians. Inside, a red carpet led them to an arch of balloons. The PTO began organizing ...

HOUGHTON — With positions to fill in the police department, the Houghton City Council approved the sponsorship of two cadets to police academy at its meeting Wednesday. The police department is applying for a $24,000 grant from the Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards that ...

CALUMET TOWNSHIP — A warehouse constructed by the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company in the late 19th century will again become a warehouse of sorts, not for mining wares, but for a number of parks under the National Park Service. Wyndeth Davis, director of the National Keweenaw Historical ...

Houghton County Sheriff’s Office reported a one vehicle roll over crash Thursday, Oct. 12 at 11:10 p.m. Deputies from the Houghton County Sheriff’s office responded to the crash on Baulman Rd. near Upper Point Mills Rd. in Torch Lake township. The driver, a 20-year-old Dollar Bay man, ...

CALUMET TOWNSHIP — Among the projects planned by the Keweenaw National Historical Park and the KNHP Advisory Commission are identifying and prioritizing abandoned mine sites for safety purposes, as well as historic preservation. During the Advisory Commission’s regular quarterly meeting ...

BARAGA — The Baraga County Economic Development Corporation announced a new partnership with the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community at the end of an annual update Wednesday at the Ojibwa Casino. “This collaborative effort establishes the first true public-private-tribal partnership in Baraga ...