11/21/2025

IRONWOOD - The Iron Range GSA is hosting a “Dinner for a Cause” Pasta Bake Fundraiser tonight, from 5:00-8:00 pm, at the Ironwood Wesley United Methodist Church to support Santa’s Headquarters. This event also supports the toy drive running through the 30th. Guests can enjoy homemade lasagna, baked macaroni and cheese, sides, drinks, and dessert. The cost is $10 per plate, but anyone who brings a toy donation for the drive eats for half price!Profits from the fundraiser will be split 60/40, with 60% dedicated to purchasing toys for donation by the GSA. Toy donations will be collected at the dinner, and additional drop-off hours at the Wesley United Methodist Church are posted on the IronRangeGSA Facebook page.

11/20/2025

GOGEBIC / ONTONAGON COUNTIES – The 2025 Firearm Deer Season in Michigan started Saturday.  Since yesterday morning there were only 6 deer harvested in Gogebic County for a total of 207 so far this season according to the DNR website just before sunrise this morning.  In Ontonagon County numbers show 51 antlered total deer harvested since yesterday morning for a total of 320.  The Michigan gun deer season runs until the end of the month; hunters are reminded to report deer kills to the DNR on their website or through the DNR app.  Wisconsin gun deer season starts on Saturday. 

11/20/2025

HOUGHTON - A hearing was held yesterday involving one of two suspects in a Houghton County murder two years ago.  Houghton County Circuit Court Judge Brittany Bulleit ruled on two defendant motions raised in Margaret Kempainen’s pre-trial hearing in September. The first motion was for the discovery of privileged information and the other, a motion to suppress statements. Both were denied by Judge Bulleit. Kempainen is charged with two counts of murder for the shooting death of her 87-year-old father-in-law Alvin Kempainen on Dec. 18, 2023. She was identified as a suspect for Alvin’s death alongside two others, her adult son Jacob Kempainen and a then-16-year-old whose name was withheld.  Kempainen’s defense attorney will most likely appeal the judge’s rulings. Margaret’s jury trial is scheduled for Jan. 26.