Up North Lowdown

Last year, multiple lawsuits alleged physical and sexual abuse at a Missouri mental health facility. Around the same time, Grand Traverse County kids were sent there for treatment.

A local conservative talk radio host is a self-described "spokesperson" for his wife, the Antrim County Clerk. What does this mean for voters in the county?

The Up North Lowdown is taking a break. But we're not done!

In the last eight years, the number of cars traveling through Mancelona has gone up by 47 percent. And this has created some unique challenges for local police.

A conservation group is continues its decade-long program to clean the Au Sable River while also teaching troubled kids to value the pristine waters — through fly fishing.

Traverse City Police Officer Krista Fryczynski is the department’s Community Officer, a position focused on outreach to unsheltered residents in the city.

On July 26, a man started stabbing people inside the Walmart near Traverse City. We look at what we know and the suspect's history of mental illness.

What’s on your summer bucket list? The nonprofit news organization Bridge Michigan asked readers that question this spring. Here's one of them.

Congress rescinded federal funding already allocated to public broadcasting. For IPR, it's a $300,000 budget hit. Still, our leader says we have reasons to be optimistic.

In this episode, a short conversation with the author Katie Yee. She is known as a short story writer, but Yee is appearing later this month at the National Writers Series in Traverse City to talk about her debut novel. t’s called “Maggie; or, a Man and a Woman Walk into a Bar.” Ahead of her visit to town, Yee spoke with IPR’s Ed Ronco.