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After a long successful career Michigan Tech’s Vice President for Research and Professor of Forest Biometrics, Dave Reed will retire at the end of the school year. Reed will end a 41-year career in higher education. Reed became the university’s vice president for research in 2001 and continues teaching within …

More than 140 soldiers returned home. Over the weekend the Michigan Army National Guard’s 107th Engineer Battalion returned home, flying into Sawyer International Airport. The battalion had been deployed in Southwest Asia for the past ten months, as a part of Operation Spartan Shield. The men and women of the …

Copper Country Ski Tigers helps lower the financial barriers to kids getting active and competing in cross-country skiing. The youth recreation non-profit has coached students for many years. Their coaches are all volunteers, and even help the group with fundraisers during the year. This year the Copper County Ski Tigers …

For many years the Friends of the Porkies have supported visitors and staff at the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park. Originally the group started as a ski club in the wilderness area and evolved into the Friends group that many people know today. As friends of a state park, the …

Around the copper country Keweenaw Queers has been able to bring together members of the LGBTQ community and supportive residents. President of the group, Katie Atkinson, says that they have been able to bring together people from all over the area and show that there is a strong and vibrant …

Thanksgiving is on Thursday, and Christmas is just around the corner. It must be the holiday season in the copper country. And that means that the Keweenaw Chamber of Commerce will happily host the holiday hoopla, and hopes to see many in the Houghton and Hancock area out to support …

Local schools in the Upper Peninsula have been getting kids interested in STEM fields with the help of robotics teams and competitions. Tomorrow Houghton First Robotics will host an Upper Peninsula-wide robotics competition during the U.P. FIRST Tech Challenge Qualifier. Around 200 middle school students from around the region will …

Evan Dixon has been denied bond in the 97th District Court. This morning Dixon, 59 years old, stood before district court for arraignment on two felony charges. Dixon is charged with first degree murder premeditated and a felony firearm charge, after being arrested on Monday night. Dixon is accused of …

Later today more than 600 pounds of turkeys will arrive in Hancock at the Little Brother’s Friends of the Elderly. Some of the turkeys will be delivered to Marquette as well for next week’s LBFE Thanksgiving Meal Congregate sites. During the dinner, Little Brother’s hundreds of volunteers will serve more …

The Keweenaw ATV Club will join the excitement at Giving Tuesday later this month for the first time. Keweenaw ATV operates as a non-profit group working to maintain the peninsula’s hundreds of miles of trails. Annually the Keweenaw sees a great number of visitors taking the adventure of a lifetime …