Manistee News

About a dozen teenagers stood outside the middle school on Maple Street in Manistee Thursday - backpacks slung over shoulders awaiting the bell to usher them inside.

The 4th of July would not be complete without fireworks and they almost didn't happen for one Northern Michigan Festival.

A Manistee man died in a two-vehicle crash. Brent Henry Rapphun, 23, was pronounced dead after a crash on M-55 near Hart Road in Manistee County at about 8 p.m. Saturday, police said.

A Manistee man was killed in a two-car accident Saturday at 8 p.m. on M-55 near Hart Road in Manistee.

MANISTEE, Mich. - Federal officials are cracking down on big, off-road trucks in the Huron-Manistee National Forest.

There was only a matter of hours in-between the time fire trucks rolled out of Manistee National Golf Course's parking lot and golfers rolled in.

GRAYLING -- A reader sent an e-mail asking if the big Hexagenia mayflies were hatching.

Every year over the Fourth of July weekend, Manistee, Michigan holds its annual National Forest Festival.

Someone once said that America's system of free enterprise was so strong "not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities." That someone, ironically, was Lee Iacocca , former chairman of Chrysler Corp.

ABC's '20/20' Friday night at 10 will include 'American Workers Adapt in Recession,' featuring a segment on MasTech Manufacturing Windspire wind turbines made in Manistee.

The largest wildfire of the season in the lower peninsula broke out Tuesday night in Manistee County's Norman Township.

There were more deer killed in Mason County in 2008 than in 2007, something that matched a trend in Lake and Oceana counties, but not Manistee.

Attorneys are negotiating a new potential sentence for Patricia Harder who pleaded guilty to embezzling from Community Mental Health and a 'vulnerable adult' after the judge Tuesday rejected the first plea agreement.

A year ago today the storms that flooded Mason and Manistee counties started. The rains continued through the night, a tornado hit in grant township and when folks woke up in the morning, homes were flooded and dozens of roads - including U.S. 31 between Ludington and Manistee - were washed out.

Judge Richard I. Cooper refused a plea agreement for the woman who allegedly embezzled more than $20,000 each from Community Mental Health and a 'vulnerable adult' Tuesday.

Tuesday, June 09, 2009 at 1:43 p.m. A State-owned land in 36 counties is being offered for sale beginning Wednesday, June 3, as a result of the Department of Natural Resourcesa review of state-owned property.

State-owned land in 36 counties is being offered for sale beginning Wednesday, June 3, as a result of the Department of Natural Resources' review of state-owned property.

In this time of economic crisis, communities across the country are trying to revitalize with a huge push toward buying local.

Lake and Manistee county portions of the Manistee National Forest will benefit from funding announced for projects Tuesday.

Two regional school districts combined efforts to improve the lives of the area's youngest children.