CALUMET — A decision of the Calumet Village Council to dissolve its committees met with opposition from some trustees at the regular October meeting last Tuesday. The decision was placed on the agenda after a recent governance training when the council was informed that its function is to ...

GLADSTONE — An informational town hall meeting was held recently at Gladstone High School to discuss an item on the ballot this year for voters in the Gladstone Area School District. The proposed plan, which asks voters to approve issuing up to $35 million in bonds to make school ...

KINGSFORD — Breitung Township Schools will host a third informational meeting about the upcoming bond election at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Kingsford High School auditorium. The district is seeking approval Nov. 7 of a $34.5 million bond for school construction and improvements. The proposed ...

HOUGHTON — On Saturday, Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist along with a delegation including Michigan Technological University President Rick Koubek, became some of the first people to get early look at the university’s new H-STEM Engineering and Health Technologies Complex.. The building, ...

LANSING — A pair of U.P. state legislators are opposing an effort to establish federally protected wilderness areas in the U.P. Senate Concurrent Resolution 11 urges Congress to designate areas of the U.P. as federally protected Wilderness areas. The proposed area includes the Ehlco Area, ...

By BETSY BLOOM Daily News MENOMINEE — A cougar recently turned up in southern Menominee County, according to the Eagle-Herald newspaper in neighboring Marinette, Wis. A trail camera on Duane Clausen’s property near Birch Creek Road and County Highway 577 captured a video of the ...