Claire Keenan-Kurgan
News FellowClaire joined Interlochen Public Radio in summer 2024. Before arriving at IPR, she interned for WBEZ’s data journalism team in Chicago and for the investigative unit of American Public Media.
She studied sociology and global studies at the University of Chicago and she speaks Spanish. Contact her at claire.keenan-kurgan@interlochen.org.
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Michigan's Attorney General is going after the Twin Flames Universe, a spiritual organization based in Leelanau County that's widely considered to be a cult. -
Peninsula Housing, the community land trust that operates within Leelanau County, will buy nine of the school’s 40 acres, and plans to develop attainable housing there. -
The park, which attracts more campers than any state park, has been closed for months as crews completed renovation work. -
Michigan's Secretary of State stopped by the IPR studios during a campaign swing through northern Michigan. -
North Lake Correctional Facility, near Baldwin, accepted its first immigration detainees Monday, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. -
In Lake County — population 12,000 — a new ICE facility is opening in a shuttered private prison, promising to create hundreds of jobs in the poorest county in the state. Many residents have doubts about whether the jobs will last. -
In Lake County — population 12,000 — a new ICE facility is opening in a shuttered private prison, promising to create hundreds of jobs in the poorest county in the state. Many residents have doubts about whether the jobs will last. -
The need for more beds in the juvenile justice system is getting greater, especially after a state facility in Gaylord closed earlier this year. -
The nurses have all accepted offers after a Munson recruiting trip to the Philippines this past winter. They are still awaiting the approval of their work visas. -
An escalating war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has NOT stopped the relationship between a coffee cooperative there and a coffee shop here in Traverse City.
