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The boilers at Michigan Tech’s Gates Tennis Center failed earlier this week and have yet to be replaced. The facility is still open, but temporary space heaters have been deployed, closing Court Four. Temperatures are supposed to break closer to normal in the upcoming weeks, Saturday will challenge for 30 …

UPDATE: Upper Michigan Water Company says that the boil water advisory for Hubbell has been lifted as of 1:11 PM Monday. A water main break has caused pressure to fall precipitously throughout Hubbell, causing a boil water advisory. Readings are now down to 20 psi. The rupture occurred at the …

Michigan Tech College of Business professor Emanuel Oliveira says recent economic data is supportive of a change in monetary policy by the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee. We are doing better than ever before in real GDP terms, meaning that we surpassed the pandemic. We are still coming out of …

The City of Houghton faces two questions still regarding the aging downtown parking deck. The first is how to pay to demolish the structure now that the council has agreed to that course of action. Manager Eric Waara presented earlier this month to the group asking for bonding authority. He …

Michigan Tech visiting professor Kristy Dodson has leveraged her connections to the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor to bring the scripts of students there to life here in the Copper Country. Eventually Dodson and her peers at UM winnowed down the submissions to four one-act plays. Tech students and …

The Houghton City Council welcomed Portage Health Foundation’s Kevin Store to present at Wednesday’s meeting. He talked about mental health and the abilities of local organizations to meet the challenges it creates. There had been some discussion in recent months as to whether Houghton should form a subcommittee on the …

The Houghton County Fair is still a few months away, though the fair committee is already seeing a lot excitement for this year. Especially from the youth in the community. Each year the market livestock show and sale sees many kids bring their hogs, sheep and goats to the fair …

Mobile phone coverage in Keweenaw County, or the lack of it, has always been a problem. A community task force will meet for the first time next week to discuss just that. The task force plans to focus on mobile phone coverage along US-41. The idea is to take motivated steps toward …

After a remarkably mild season last year, winter is back in the Keweenaw…but not too harsh. Houghton County Road Commission Engineer Kevin Harju says the budget is still within the usual range. We’re at about $1.4 million, so about $400,000 more than last year on snow removal [at this time]. …

As snow depths reach over four feet in parts of the Copper Country, it becomes hard for animals like deer to survive. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources encourages supplemental feeding by residents throughout the Keweenaw Peninsula. There are several conditions that must be met to have a site on …