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Artists Freed to Create at Artist-in-residence Programs

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My Week on Silver Island

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Celebrating the Keweenaw’s Signature Food

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From Manual Typewriter to the Internet – Journalism’s Journey

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Citizen Sources: Spilling the Tea or Helping Community?

Have you ever received a phonecall from a reporter? Learn some Dos and Donts on how to be a good source from a lead reporter.

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More Than Fun in the Sun

Summer means beaches and barbecues, right? Think again. There’s a lot more to do in the Keweenaw than play in the sun.

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Community Celebrates Keweenaw Pridefest

Pridefest is sponsored by Keweenaw Queers, a local collaborative that provides a home for non-binary people and their allies in our community.

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Farm Fresh Food Access: Your Guide to Farmer’s Market Season

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Coming Soon: Expanded Keweenaw Co-op in Hancock

The Co-op's move downtown signifies a major step, not only for the business itself but also for the surrounding area. Despite delays, Co-op officials say construction is back on track.

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Can wild rice rebound in the Keweenaw?

Manoomin, wild rice in the Ojibwa language, is not a crop, but a living being with a deep spiritual, historical and cultural meaning to the people who first settled in the Great Lakes region.

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Big Annie’s Likeness is Coming to Calumet

Learn about the historical significance of Big Annie in Calumet, as well as local artist Jerome Patryjak’s connection to her.

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Welcome to the Brand New Copper Beacon: What We’re Doing and Why

Today marks the relaunch of a new and improved Copper Beacon. Let me tell you about its history, mission and plans for the future.

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Young grad fulfills dream of owning own bakery, gets brick thrown through window

Young baker and business entrepreneur Erin Baker exhibits sisu as she overcomes obstacles to open her bakery, Copper Country Sweets, including an incident of vandalism.

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Community rallies behind robbed local businesses, perpetrators come clean

Two men entered the Hirvonen building in Hancock on the Quincy Green and stole “a felonious amount” of items from businesses on the 4th floor.

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Houghton County has two new assistant prosecuting attorneys

Dan Helmer announced on Friday that he has hired two assistant prosecuting attorneys. Hilary Baker will be the chief assistant prosecuting attorney, and Alex Berger will be an assistant prosecuting attorney.

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Houghton County’s high prosecutor turnover, explained

Lately, the Houghton County prosecutor’s office has looked like a revolving door. Prosecutors come; prosecutors go. What is going on? Is there internal political turmoil? Some kind of shenanigans?

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Michigan Tech receives ultimatum from free speech watchdog after removing professor

An event to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall on Michigan Tech’s campus last month devolved into a billboard for hate which was defended as constitutionally protected free speech.

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Lake Effect farmstand fills food access gap in Copper Harbor

Access to fresh, affordable food has posed a challenge in the Keweenaw, resulting in what is commonly referred to as a "food desert." Local farmstands create more opportunities for obtaining locally grown produce.

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Unsold and Neglected: Six major Finlandia properties face abandonment

“Our singular focus is to get enough money to pay the teachers who delayed pay through the summer, as well as local creditors,” said O’Keefe.

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Metaphysical healers, musicians and artisans gathered in Lake Linden

The Fall Colors Healing Fair will be an annual event.

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Meet Up and Eat Up program breaks record by serving 118,426 meals in 10 weeks

Meet the driving force behind the Meet Up and Eat Up program, launched last-minute to feed school kids.

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Paw Patrol pushes forward with work to protect abused animals

A small-but-growing group of people are trying to address animal abuse in the Keweenaw area, calling themselves “Paw Patrol.”

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Calumet Community Free Fridge offers fresh produce to address food insecurity in Keweenaw

Limited access to fresh and affordable food has long been a challenge in the Keweenaw, creating a "food desert." However, progress is being made as the community now has more options to obtain local produce without straining finances.

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Speaking With My Stomach

Take a culinary journey to Valencia, Spain, and create the classic Spanish dish, paella.

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Conservancies involved in sale of Seven Mile Point registered to same address

Incongruencies between official paperwork and the narrative of conservancy leadership plague the sale of this popular shoreline.

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Can you imagine what a billion is?

A taste of our editorial section, out from behind our paywall!

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Michigan Tech fires deans of two largest colleges, offers no explanation

The deans of both the College of Engineering, and the College of Sciences and Arts at Michigan Technological University were fired June 26.

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To Stem the Flood

As of June, FEMA’s latest visit concluded, and they will now make a report to the state. According to Emergency Management Division Coordinator Chris VanArsedale, we now wait and see what happens.

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Houghton Taco Bell closed due to high carbon monoxide levels

Though staff remained at work to do deep cleaning, a Taco Bell employee said that they couldn’t run their food equipment due to the risk.

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Residents wanting solar panels face stumbling blocks

They include state distributed-generation regulations, net metering caps set by electric utilities and local zoning ordinances regulating installation of solar panels.

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