Houghton County News

Read more: Local , News , Disaster , Mid Air Collision , Plane Crash , Simulated Crash , First Responders , Safety , Fire Fighters , Police Officers , Officials , Houghton County Memorial Airport , Help , Passengers , Safety Drill , Jet Fuel , Airplane , Jet Plane , Every Three Years , Sirens , Mercy EMS FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP -- With Civil Air Patrol ... (more)

Yesterday, sections of the western U.P. received beneficial rains associated with the front that blasted through the U.P.A Over an inch fell at Ironwood, with Rockland in Ontonagon County tallying 0.90 inches and Twin Lakes in Houghton County 0.79 inches.A Unfortunately farther east, the rain area shrunk and dissipated so that the fire-ravaged area ... (more)

This photo of a cougar was taken by Baraga County resident Fred Nault near Skanee on Saturday, May 5. The photo represents the 15th time the DNR has been able to verify the presence of a cougar in the Upper Peninsula since 2008.

The pretty Leicestershire village of Houghton on the Hill has been named one of the best places to live in the country.

A motorist pulled up along side me as I was slowly running down a Negaunee street sometime in mid-May 1997, rolled down his window and hollered, "This has been the worst May that I can remember and I've lived here all my seventy years."A I could not disagree with him; if one were an aficionado of mild spring weather, May 1997 was a trying time ... (more)

Read more: Local , Crime , Personal Property , Computer , Security Cameras , Michael Jestila , Drug Chargesbackroom Multi Entertainment , Houghton , Boackroom Obsessions , Marquette , Attorney Tim Quinell HOUGHTON -- The owner of Backroom Multi Entertainment in Houghton, Michael Jestila, was in Houghton County Circuit Court for a pretrial Wednesday ... (more)

EarlyA on ThursdayA the Planning Commission spoke to the chamber about the master plan.A The document is currently under a five year revision which describes the nature and character of the place and people of Houghton County.