Beaver Island News

Every year about now, this column departs from issues and opinions to ask: Just what do you know about Michigan? Here's our annual summer quiz, suitable as always for clipping and stashing in the glove box, to help pass the time in holiday traffic.

Summer began shortly before noon on June 11 for students in Traverse City Area Public Schools.

This coming week, the chamber is focusing on its relationship with state and local elected officials, and how the chamber isA evaluating legislation, regulation and policy issues that matter to chamber members.

Posted on Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 11:32 p.m. While the swine flu is officially being considered a pandemic, local experts say there is no reason to panic.

Veteran Washington Post political columnist David S. Broder is coming to Traverse City.

With the recent surge of piracy off the coast of Somalia I've been thinking ... "What is with all the Pirates?" Here's the situation in a nutshell according to the US Department of Transportation Maritime Administration or MARAD.

Apr 9, 2009 1:39 pm US/Central While the world watches the Somali pirate drama , there's a story to be told of pirates right here on Lake Michigan.A WBBM Newsradio 780's Steve Miller found out that the lake in Chicago's front yard was home to a few pirates from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Hide Video Enjoy the warm and sunny St. Patrick's Day weather, because it doesn't last.

Shiny plastic Shamrocks, a three wheeld cart, tug-o-war and a frozen fish were all part of Beaver Islands annual St.

U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City medically evacuated a man experiencing a life-threatening illness from Beaver Island Airport Friday at 8:30 a.m. J. Croswhite, a resident of the island, received ...

Michael Rao, who was one of the youngest four-year university presidents in the nation when he arrived in Mount Pleasant as a 33-year-old in August 2000, will become president of 32,000-student Virginia ...

"Cinematic" is one the most overused adjectives in the music reviewer's lexicon, practically guaranteed to appear at the first sign of a Morricone-like expanse of sound.

Holly Keller, left, and Jenny Bousquet are the Petoskey-based folk-bluegrass band Pinky Lee.

A network of area hospitals are coming together to help improve healthcare for those living in rural areas.

An icy cover is creeping across Grand Traverse Bay and toward Power Island, a sure sign of a rugged northern Michigan winter.

Ralph Shuck and Williamston's Boy Scout Troop 63 have been intertwined together for 50 years.

Metro Detroit and the rest of the state will be in a deep freeze the rest of this week, according to the National Weather Service.

Stonehenge: now imagine this scene underwater in Lake Michigan. It shall thenceforth be known as 'Lake Pachouli.' We know that the SS Edmund Fitzgerald is in Lake Superior.

Charlevoix County Road Commission hopes to fund three local projects worth more than $9.4 million with the help of president-elect Barack Obama's $775 billion economic stimulus plan The Charlevoix County Road ...

A Beaver Island man was airlifted to the mainland for treatment after he was injured early Thursday in a snowmobile crash near the island's north end.