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Mike Rogers makes campaign stop in Marquette

MARQUETTE — Republican Senatorial candidate Mike Rogers visited Marquette Thursday morning as part of a longer campaign bus tour of the Upper Peninsula. The event was held at the Honorable Distillery in downtown Marquette, and attracted a crowd of a few dozen supporters. “Mike’s out ...

M-26/Canal Road intersection traffic signal in Houghton to go into flash mode Oct. 28

HOUGHTON ­— The Michigan Department of Transportation will place the traffic signal on M-26 at Canal Road in Houghton into flash mode for the season beginning in the early morning of Wednesday, Oct. 28. The signal will flash yellow for M-26 and flash red for Houghton Canal Road for the winter. This schedule is weather dependent and subject to change. MDOT urges drivers to be aware of these signal changes and use caution when approaching the intersection. The transportation department installed this signal in summer 2025 and plans to operate it from approximately May until October ...

Century-long data reveals complex trends in ice cover in the Great Lakes

MARQUETTE — The amount of ice on the Great Lakes has declined rapidly over the past four decades, but a warming climate might not be the only explanation for freezing fluctuations during the last century. Those are the findings of a new study that reported, for the first time, 125 years of ...

Marquette County Master Plan draft available for public review

MARQUETTE — After months of work, the Marquette County Master Plan is available for public review. The plan is available at mqtcoplan.org, and the county will be accepting comments and questions until Dec. 2. The 74-page document is an update to the 2021 Master Plan rewrite, which sought to determine what residents and County Planning staff wanted the County to be like in the year 2040. “This plan is a five-year update to that plan,” reads the Introduction of the Master Plan draft. “The scope is more limited, but aims to check in on the progress we have made as a county so ...

Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center to offer monthly VA 101 classes

IRON MOUNTAIN — The Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center will begin offering free monthly VA 101 classes Oct. 26 to help veterans learn about the benefits, health care programs and other services available through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The classes will be held from 5-6 p.m. on the last Monday of each month in the medical center’s second-floor waiting room. All veterans are welcome, and registration is not required. “Veterans will learn something new about VA benefits and services,” said Tim Ellison, public affairs officer. VA 101 will provide an ...