Leelanau County News Archives

A 90-year-old man with dementia reported missing in Leelanau County is found safe.

Deputies in Leelanau County need your help catching two men responsible for stealing cash from several fruit, flower and wood stands in the Suttons Bay area.

Deputies are searching for the person responsible for a shooting spree, damaging more than a dozen windows in Leelanau County.

Leelanau County Sheriff Mike Oltersdorf fired a sergeant who filed the initial complaint about the department's contentious phone recording practices.

The Leelanau County Sheriff's Department is investigating several incidents of windows being shot out.

Hide Video Right now crews are searching parts of Leelanau county for a missing elderly man.

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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 1:49 p.m. There are a lot of roads in northern Michigan that need a lot of work.

Walkers are stretching and warming up and asking for donations. It's CROP Hunger Walk season.

Michigan Department of Human Services Director Ismael Ahmed today recognized five individuals and two teams with service awards.

The Westland Police Department hosted a party and plenty of people showed up. An estimated 450 turned out for the department open house Saturday - the first time in about 13 years that the public had been invited for a visit.

The National Park Service and WCMU Public Broadcasting invites the public to two, free preview screenings of the Ken Burns documentary series, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea", which will premiere on PBS in late September.

Road projects are scheduled to begin this month in Grand Traverse and Leelanau counties.

Northern Michigan vintners hope there's enough summer sizzle left this month to ripen a grape crop stunted by an uncommonly cool growing season.

Authorities aren't yet sure if they will seek charges against a Leelanau County man who struck and killed another man with his car.

Hide Video Leelanau County deputies are looking for car that left the scene of an accident where someone was hurt.

Leaders in Leelanau and Benzie counties made their communities' indoor workplaces smoke-free. The law is a welcome change that will prevent public exposure to dangerous second-hand smoke, some believe, while others suggest the new law infringes on free enterprise and individual choice.

A rehabilitated bald eagle is being released into the wild in Leelanau County. The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports that the release is scheduled for 5 p.m. Saturday near the corner of state highway 72 and county road 667, west of Glen's Landfill.

Hide Video Police say a driver hit a man walking along a Leelanau County road, killing him.

Leelanau County appears to have finally landed a new administrator. Richard Eric Cline, 41, accepted a job offer to be the county's top administrator.

The old saying practice makes perfect can be applied to almost any job, including fighting fires.