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Highland Copper has brought in some new money to advance its mining projects in the Western Upper Peninsula. Osisko Gold Royalties Ltd will loan Highland 10-million dollars Canadian. Osisko will swap that loan for a royalty on minerals produced at Highland’s proposed White Pine North mine in Ontonagon County once …

E-cigarettes are now banned from the Michigan Tech campus. Student government bodies recently conducted surveys and after the results were reviewed by the Tobacco-Free Task Force and the Executive Team, President Glenn Mroz announced a total ban of all tobacco and smoking-like products, including e-cigarettes. Mroz adds the action is …

Several grants are on the way to local organizations, thanks to the Youth Advisory Council of the Keweenaw Community Foundation. Over $13,000 have been awarded to seven organizations, including the Movie Magic Film Series and the Winter Skills Adventure Program. The grants will help support projects that benefit youth in …

With altercations between police and citizens making national news headlines recently, many police departments are looking to equip officers with body cameras. The Upper Peninsula’s Regional Homeland Security Board is looking at a project that would equip as many U.P. police officers as possible with the body cams. Delta County …

A new group calling itself Great Lakes Patrol is offering a $1,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the people who have poached two wolves in Michigan. The animals were found in the Upper Peninsula near Gulliver and Newberry. Rewards will be offered for other illegal …

With the Portage Lake Lift Bridge Rehab Project set to begin this month, some preliminary work will be done starting this Sunday that will cause some delays. The work will be done tonight and tomorrow night between the times of 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. The delays will be sporadic, …

Keweenaw Bay Indian Community voters Saturday put the brakes on a proposal to build a new casino, and ousted two incumbent Tribal Council members from their jobs. In the L’Anse District, where two seats were available, newcomer Randy Haataja collected 331 votes. Former Council member Toni Minton was returned to …

State police troopers continue to investigate an accident involving an ore hauling truck that had just left the Eagle Mine in north Marquette County early Saturday morning. The southbound semi overturned off the right side of County Road 550, about two miles north of the Sugarloaf Mountain public parking lot. Sheriff’s deputies …

LANSING, Mich. – Gov. Rick Snyder today announced the appointments of Brenda Ryan, of Commerce Township, and William Johnson, of Newaygo, to the Michigan Technological University board of control. The eight-person board is the governing body of the University. “Brenda and William will bring great insight to one of Michigan’s …

Tomorrow, the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community will hold its annual general election. Registered voters in the L’Anse District will vote at the Zeba Community Center. Registered voters in the Baraga District will vote at the Ojibwa Senior Citizens Center. Voters in the Baraga District will be asked to choose no …