CRYSTAL FALLS — A 63-year-old Illinois man was seriously injured in a one-vehicle crash Thursday night on Lake Ottawa Road in Stambaugh Township, the Iron County Sheriff’s Office said. Driving a 2011 Dodge pickup truck, the man failed to negotiate a curve and hit a tree at about 7:13 p.m., ...

By GARRETT NEESE Daily Mining Gazette HOUGHTON — Houghton County will have a center for early voting. The Houghton City Council approved usage of the second floor of the City Center as an early-voting site for county residents for future state and presidential elections, starting with ...

IRON MOUNTAIN –The Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center received the 2022 Best Overall Experience Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs during the Customer Experience Award Ceremony held this week in Washington, D.C. The award recognizes the medical center’s excellence in providing ...

By CHRISTIE MASTRIC Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — The Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center at Northern Michigan University opened a landmark exhibition on the 1820 expedition of Lewis Cass on the Great Lakes today. The exhibition, “Claiming Michigan: the 1820 Expedition of Lewis ...

We hear a constant grumble about workforce hiring. It often comes with a resigned blanket commentary, “No one wants to work anymore,” or, as part of a package complete with “how different it was” back in the olden, golden days. But oversimplifications often miss the point, and ...

By GARRETT NEESE Daily Mining Gazette HOUGHTON — Drivers in Houghton and Hancock will have less worry of unexpected backups at the Portage Lake Lift Bridge. Lifts of the bridge will be restricted to the top and halfway point of the hour in most cases, starting Sept. 29, Houghton County ...