Leelanau County News

Danielle Schlack looked eager and happy to get going as she filled her car with gas at the BP Station on North Main Street in Ann Arbor on Thursday.

Posted on Monday, June 29, 2009 at 5:37 p.m. With the increased need for affordable housing, two organizations are coming together with a new project.

The idea started germinating last summer when the price of gasoline was over four dollars per gallon.

Julius Bugai is frustrated, if not hopping mad. Bugai raises rabbits on Alpine Road in rural Leelanau County and contends his neighbor's dogs continuously raid his bunny stock.

A vacant ski resort in Leelanau County may soon take on a whole new look. The Sugar Loaf Ski Resort in Cedar closed it's doors back in 2000.A Now nearly a decade later a Leelanau County community is coming together to help bring the area back to life.

A Cedar man faces a criminal sexual conduct charge after an alleged assault at his home.

Sandy : Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Leelanau and Benzie counties, where weddings take place on the sand dunes with a marvelous view of Lake Michigan .

LANSING, Mich. - The state Supreme Court has ruled for a northern Michigan couple who sold a house without reporting any history of termite infestation in their disclosure statement.

The state Supreme Court has ruled for a northern Michigan couple who sold a house without reporting any history of termite infestation in their disclosure statement.

Brent Thomas and Kristen Wheeler stood under the pre-summer sun at the Leland Harbor, sipping local wine offerings from Willow Vineyard in Suttons Bay.

A Pipe Dream Comes True at Leelanau Cigar Co. By Al Parker 6/15/09 Joe Barrera, owner of the only cigar shop in Leelanau County, remembers clearly when he fired up his first cigar.

A Leelanau County time capsule offered its probers a glimpse of local history. Historical preservation graduate students from Eastern Michigan University spent last week at DeYoung Natural Area on Cherry Bend Road just north of Traverse City.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 6:48 p.m. NORTHERN MICHIGAN -- "There are not as many things in the shade that bloom as nice as things in the sun," said Eric Vanthomme of Plant Masters Nursery in Suttons Bay.

A new state study on wind energy reinforces a point Manistee County Commissioner Allan O'Shea constantly promotes: Manistee County is a good spot for windmills.

June or not, it's been getting pretty cold lately in northern Michigan, and that has some fruit-growers worrying about the effects of frost.

Cold weather keeps Leelanau County strawberry grower Gary Bardenhagen up at night.

A historic landmark in Leelanau County is on the path to being restored. All week a group of grad students from Eastern Michigan University will be at the DeYoung Natural Area to work on some historic buildings.

Some area public transit systems are expected to catch a lift from the federal government.

Northwestern Michigan College has announced its dean's list for the spring semester.

Glen Lile spent the holiday weekend fretting over ongoing problems at Grand Traverse County's septage treatment plant.