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You can tell its graduation at Michigan Tech, when area hotels are booked solid, and Husky pride fills the Student Development Complex on a Saturday morning. Parents, siblings, and loved ones filled two levels of bleachers in the Wood gym, while 325 eager graduates awaited that walk across the stage …

The unofficial results of this weekend’s Keweenaw Bay Indian Community general election are in. In the Baraga District, the top two vote getters for the Tribal Council were Warren “Chris” Swartz, Jr. with 274 and Kim Klopstein with 260. Elizabeth “Beth” Conner received 253 votes and Sue Ellen “Suzie” Elmblad …

CALUMET, Mich. – The holidays are a fun, yet hectic time of year for many. Traveling, parties and house guests can throw a wrench in your exercise regimen, but it doesn’t have to. Aspirus Fitness Center Supervisor Stacy Bussiere, ACE-CPT recommends the following tips to help you stay on top of …

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is offering a weekend winter sports workshop for women amid the breathtaking beauty of Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park. The workshop, offered through the DNR’s Becoming an Outdoors-Woman program, is scheduled for the weekend of Jan. 25-27. The outing is for women who have …

Two of these projects are in the Copper Country–$297,000 for Grant Township for the Keweenaw Point Trail from High Rock to Montreal River and $49,500 for Baraga County for Natural Area Pathway & Picnic Improvements at Point Abbaye. Gov. Rick Snyder applauds quality of life improvements The Michigan Natural Resources …

Comments will be accepted by phone and email through Dec. 18 The State of Michigan today released for public review and comment proposed agreements related to a planned multi-use utility tunnel in the Straits of Mackinac and the remaining life of Line 5 in the Straits. The documents are posted …

LANSING — The Michigan House of Representatives approved House Resolution 472 on Thursday, introduced by state Rep. Sara Cambensy (D-Marquette), to declare December 14, 2018, as Frostbitten Convention Day, to recognize the landmark agreement that granted the western Upper Peninsula to Michigan and set in motion the bid for statehood. …

Money raised by Michigan Tech students during their annual haunted house is going to support two local organizations. Students from Theta Chi Epsilon sorority and Sigma Pi fraternity presented a total of $2,500 to the Pigs N Heat charity hockey game and Dial Help at Wednesday’s meeting of the Houghton …

Looking out for one another is a strong characteristic of many UP residents, and that rings true in the Keweenaw Peninsula just as much as anywhere else in Yooperland.  “We are providing in the neighborhood of 200 students with food to last them over that 12 day period so they …

More than 325 bachelor’s, master’s and PhD recipients are expected to attend Midyear Commencement at Michigan Technological University. Ceremonies will take place at 10:30 a.m. Saturday (Dec. 15) in the Wood Gym of the Student Development Complex on the Houghton Campus. Terry Woychowski will deliver the commencement address. Woychowski, who …