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By Tom Carr

Acme Township will soon decide the fate of the 160-year-old house on Grand Traverse Bay built by the town's founder Leonard Hoxsie.

It's one of a few remaining...

By Bob Allen

Newspapers around the region are reporting the discovery of a piece of shipwreck at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. A photographer from Kingsley is circulating...

By Tom Kramer

The city of Frankfort will soon be handed the keys to the north breakwater lighthouse.

Senator Carl Levin announced yesterday that ownership of the 80-year-old...

By Tom Carr

Acme Township is trying to decide if founder Leonard Hoxsie's house is historical enough to be saved.

The tan Victorian home, built in the 1870s, is on land...

By Linda Stephan

A Traverse City library is making it easier for people to look up old family announcements and historical articles from the local newspaper. Osterlin Library at...

By Brad Aspey

When Eastport artist Betty Beeby found a bunch of old letters in a trunk, she discovered a story of maternal love and deep heartbreak. Now, that story is being turned into...

CORRECTION: In all cases where we referred to "tax credits" in this story, we should have used the term "tax increment financing." We regret the error.

As explained by the developer, tax increment financing, or TIF, is...

By Peter Payette

Manistee will own the North Pierhead Light after tomorrow. The city will take over the property from the U.S Coast Guard in a ceremony Thursday afternoon.

The...

By Mary Ellen Geist

Mackinac Island is famous around the world as a place where you step back in time. It's a National Historic Landmark.

But that designation is at risk, and...

By Bob Allen

This is the story of how one of northern Michigan's premier inland lakes came to be what it is today.

It was the early 1870s, and travel was still predominantly by...

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