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Pizza Hut will be sold for $2.7 billion

Business

Pizza Hut, the 68-year-old chain that has long struggled with growing competition and outdated restaurants, will be sold for $2.7 billion by parent company Yum Brands. Yum Brands said Tuesday that the private equity firm LongRange Capital will buy Pizza Hut, excluding the mainland China ...

Iron, culture and the Little Steel Strike

Local News

(Editor’s note: At the beginning of the 20th century, America began a period of industrial growth — fueled by the nation’s vast stores of natural resources — that led to victory in two world wars and the nation emerging as a true superpower. One of the cities at the epicenter of that ...

New look at Felch center

Local News

FELCH TOWNSHIP — Visitors to the Felch Township Community Center and post office will notice a new look outside, thanks to landscaping that aims to highlight the area’s history of logging, mining and potato farming. Brian Penna completed the project Saturday, planting three trees along ...

UP music festival series back in IM this week

Local News

The Pine Mountain Music Festival will return to Iron Mountain this week as part of its 35th season offering classical music. Performances kicked off Saturday in Houghton and extend through June 27, with three distinct classical music acts traveling to Houghton, Iron Mountain, Ontonagon and ...

Dunbar man killed in motorcycle crash

Local News

BEECHER, Wis. — A 74-year-old Dunbar, Wis., man died Saturday when the motorcycle he was operating on Highway Z in Beecher went into the ditch and hit a tree, according to authorities. The crash that claimed the life of Gary I. Yaggie was reported by an off-duty sheriff’s patrol sergeant ...

Stonehouse legacy endures as fire rebuild advances

Local News

ESCANABA — What was once the scene of a devastating fire is gradually becoming a story of restoration. While an opening date has not been set, the Stonehouse Restaurant & Lounge is nearing the end of a long rebuilding process. The Romps family, who have owned the Stonehouse for over four ...