Latest news, weather, high school sports for Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

Monday, April 08, 2013  An outage caused by a car -pole accident has left about 1700 business and residential customers without power in downtown Houghton and out along M-26

Friday, January 18, 2013  A breakdown of the numbers for rural power providers in the Upper Peninsula

Tuesday, July 03, 2012  People in Marquette, Houghton, and Baraga counties woke up without power on Tuesday

Thursday, November 03, 2011  Around 11:45 p.m. on Wednesday, the UPPCO Operation Center in Green Bay received a notification of a power outage at the Sawyer substation

Friday, July 01, 2011  The Negaunee Township Fire Department responded to a small grass fire in the area of the UPPCO substation

Monday, December 20, 2010  In June, the company filed a request with the Michigan Public Service Commission to increase its overall electric base rates by 16.8 percent

Friday, October 29, 2010  Few residents remain without power on Friday, all of which are in the Ishpeming area

Thursday, October 28, 2010  UPPCO, along with contracted crews, hope to have power restored to roughly 2,000 homes by Friday afternoon

Wednesday, October 27, 2010  The Upper Peninsula Power Company has updated the severity of this storm in relation to their customers

Tuesday, October 26, 2010  UPPCO officials are expecting longer than normal restoration times

Thursday, October 14, 2010  UPPCO and the city of Negaunee crews planned Thursday's outage to install a mobile power transformer to temporary replace the current one