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Grant to restore fog signal at Eagle Harbor Lighthouse

EAGLE HARBOR — The State Historic Preservation Office has awarded a $100,000 Rural Heritage Partnership Grant to the Keweenaw County Historical Society to fund the systematic structural rehabilitation of the historic 1895 Eagle Harbor Fog Signal Building. The funding allocation from the ...

Remember when?

This week’s “Remember When?” — provided by the Niagara Area Historical Museum — continues with its “Life Behind the Mill” series, offering a glimpse into the close-knit community and everyday experiences of generations of families who resided along the Menominee River. In ...

IM City Park deer transfer takes another step ahead

IRON MOUNTAIN — The planned transfer of the City Park deer herd to DeYoung Family Zoo in Menominee County is moving forward after completion Monday of a first round of tuberculosis tests. A second set of TB tests will be needed four months from now. If there are no problems, the ...

One dead, one injured in UP fire

NEGAUNEE — One man is dead and another has severe burns after a house fire Monday night in Negaunee Township. Troopers from the Michigan State Police Negaunee Post arrived about 8:40 p.m. Eastern time Monday to find the residence on M-35 in Negaunee Township engulfed in flames, according to ...

Tribes respond to reports of euthanized wolf pack

The Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission is condemning what it calls a lack of communication between state agencies and tribal communities after nine wolves were trapped and euthanized in Wisconsin's Price County. In a news release, the commission described the wolves as a pack ...

US 41 crash leaves two injured, one under arrest

MENOMINEE — The driver of a passenger vehicle was arrested after a collision with a motorcycle on U.S. 41 on Sunday that left two people seriously injured. The crash happened near Willow Road in Menominee Township, with both occupants on the motorcycle taken to Aurora Medical Center-Bay Area in Marinette, Wis., with major injuries, according to a news release Tuesday from Sheriff Darrin Kudwa. The driver of the passenger vehicle was arrested on suspicion of impaired driving, the news release states. No names were released in the crash, which remains under investigation, according to ...