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For the past few weeks I've seen many groups on Facebook share photos of dead fish which are popping up all over Michigan beaches from Traverse City to the shores of Lake Michigan. Many people have been asking why there are so many of them, why they died and what can be done about them. The cause has been the biggest concern but it turns out it may be nothing more than a fish who isn't adapted to our waters making its way into our lakes, as one person suggested:

The city of Manistee is currently seeking bids for a streetscape design plan for River Street.

CRYSTAL LAKE TWP. — A structure fire in the 600 block of Airport Road near the Frankfort Dow Memorial Airport has caused a temporary closure of the road at the site of the fire in Benzie County. The Frankfort Fire Department and Benzonia Township Fire Department are on the...

As I got closer to attending The 350 Club Baseball Invite hosted by Manistee on May 14, I wondered who had the best opportunity to hoist the trophy.

Michigan is the world’s leading producer of Montmorency tart cherries, growing 70 percent of the United States’ supply of them. Situated on Lake Michigan’s Grand Traverse Bay, Traverse City, known as the Cherry Capital of the World, presents the National Cherry Festival. You’ll find sweet and fresh...

Traverse City Horse Shows (TCHS) issued a public statement on Monday afternoon regarding its upcoming summer event slate. The statement was a response to Acme Township’s recent announcement that TCHS would face suspension of its newly-granted special use permit if it fails to resolve a number of conditions laid forth by the township. Were the permit to be suspended, TCHS would effectively be required to cancel its summer 2022 season.

Recreational Marijuana is on its way to Traverse City. Late Monday evening Traverse City Commissioners voted to allow recreational marijuana businesses to operate within city limits. Commissioners decided to allow 24 recreational businesses, including the medical businesses already operating to operate within city limits. House of Dank’s CCO, Mike DiLaura,...

MANISTEE — The Manistee Intermediate School District will host a blood drive in memory of Brian Slawinski, a paraprofessional who died last year of leukemia. The blood drive is slated to run from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Friday. The drive will be held in Conference Room A at 772 E. Parkdale Ave. in Manistee.

Traverse City Commissioners have approved a plan to allow recreational marijuana sales within the city limits. Commissioners approved the guidelines in a late-night Monday meeting that went until almost midnight. City Clerk Benjamin Marentette says, “It’s been a long time coming. The city commission, some time ago, almost two years...

Human Rights Commission will Present Award on June 6, 2022. The City of Traverse City’s Human Rights Commission has honored Courtney Wiggins with the 2022 Sara Hardy Humanitarian Award. Wiggins is Co-founder of Northern Michigan E3, a local non-profit devoted to celebrating and welcoming diversity and equality for all residents and visitors to Northern Michigan.

Traverse City commissioners and those in attendance were split on the cities decision to pass a Letter of Understanding between the city and the Michigan Department of Transportation. Commissioners, some of them reluctantly, adopted the motion to the planning and design of improvements to US-31 from Division to Garfield. Mayor...

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- City Commission approved the adult use cannabis licensing and zoning ordinance for Traverse City on May 16. The ordinance includes an overlay district of subareas throughout the City, which prescribes a maximum number of licenses in each subarea. The maximum number of retail licenses,...

City of Manistee officials will play host to dignitaries and officials from the Sault Ste. Marie this year in the annual Mayor Exchange program. Sault Ste. Marie Mayor Anthony Bosbous and his contingent from Sault Ste. Marie will be arriving in Manistee on the evening of May 29. Although they will be in town that day, the real activities will be taking place the following day.

Traverse City Commissioners were met with a full house at Monday evenings meeting. Traverse City Firefighters showed up in numbers after the city manager unveiled an early draft of the city’s budget for the fiscal year of 2022-2023. The budget left out three additional firefighter positions suggested by the Fire Chief Jim Tuller.

See how Manistee could have had its very own waterfall and how Maniste's Riverside Drive became Memorial Drive in the 1940s.

Fire crews from Frankfort and Benzonia Township responded to a wildfire that turned into a garage fire on Airport Road.