Local Government

The Grand Traverse County Board of Commissioners meeting was nearly cancelled yesterday because they couldn’t decide on whether to hear an agenda item on…

After passing a much debated prayer policy, the Grand Traverse County Commission started its first meeting of February with an invocation. On Wednesday…

State government has been distracted by the water contamination crisis it created in Flint, by the financial problems in Detroit schools, and the day...

You can now ride your bike from Lake Michigan to Lake Huron on a fully-improved trail network. The trail system starts in Charlevoix, heads to Mackinac…

A new report on the fiscal health of local governments in Michigan raised the question of whether those governments feel the steam running out of the...

Developers can go ahead with their plan to build a nine-story building in downtown Traverse City. The city commission voted last night to approve a…

The Traverse City Commission has chosen a new city manager. At a meeting yesterday, commissioners voted 4-to-3 to offer the job to Martin Colburn. Colburn…

Local government officials believe they and their colleagues are pretty ethical. They seem to feel differently about state officials, however. Those...

Police say the city manager of Traverse City was not arrested during a call to his home last Monday but the incident is under investigation.Police were…

The Traverse City History Center is moving out of the building it has called home for the last 13 years. The center’s board voted Tuesday night to…