history

Lake County turns 150 years old this year and the Lake County Historical Museum is celebrating with a week of events. A conversation with Museum President Bruce Micinski about the county's origins and growth.

The Women's Federated Clubs of the early 20th Century left a permanent mark in Petoskey. Little Traverse History Museum Executive Director Jane Garver has been transcribing the minutes from these women’s clubs.

Colonial Michilimackinac is a wooden fort, once used by the French and British about 300 years ago. It’s also among the longest ongoing archaeological digs in the U-S.

Archaeologists at Fort Michilimackinac uncovered a pocket knife over the holiday weekend.

150 years ago, a feud between farmers and lumber mills helped create the channel between Portage Lake and Lake Michigan. This channel made Onekama the village it is today.

If you look at Benzie County on Google Maps, you’ll notice a dark green strip of land about five miles long between Platte Lake and Crystal Lake. That’s…

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Last week, t he Board of State Canvassers approved a ballot petition that might end the prohibition of recreational marijuana in Michigan Meanwhile,...

Siwatu-Salama Ra is a young Detroit activist who was sentenced to two years in prison for brandishing a licensed and unloaded firearm in what she claims...