Osceola County News

There's trophies, blue ribbons and even a little money on the line for exhibitors at fairs around Northern Michigan this summer, but there's significantly less cash than in year's past.

Low milk prices are hurting Northern Michigan dairy farmers. The Lee Woodland Farm in Osceola County is feeling the pinch.

The state wants wind turbines and other sources of renewable energy, but the question for local communities is whether or not they want turbines in their backyards.

Hide Video Osceola County will soon be home to a new park along the Hersey River.

Hide Video Fire crews are still on the scene of a fire at an Osceola County sawmill.

Hide Video Deputies believe more than one thief broke into an Osceola County gas station, even though only one was spotted.

Department of Natural Resources forest recreation officials today announced the eastern half of the Evart Motorcycle Trail, located in Osceola County, will be closed for approximately one month to allow the cleanup of downed trees, which resulted from a wind storm that occurred last summer.

A once thriving plant in the city of Evart in Osceola County is now down to about fifty workers.

Hide Video Fire crews from Hersey, Reed City, and Sherman Township, are still on the scene of a pole barn fire in Osceola County.

Northern Michigan farmers are appreciating the rain this week. It's been cooler and dry at Werner's Dairy Farm in Osceola County.

Clark Semaan had an extra day off for the Memorial Day holiday and was headed north, his 19-foot boat in tow.

It was already under way Thursday and will shift into overdrive this afternoon and tonight: the cavalcade of metro Detroiters hitting I-75, M-53, I-94 and other freeways headed Up North, to the Thumb and south to Ohio and elsewhere to get away for the three-day Memorial Day weekend.

Hide Video Two people arrested for stealing a vehicle in Evart have police looking into their possible connection to other area break-ins. It started when someone reported their car stolen.

A mom and her kids are okay after an early morning house fire in Osceola County.

Hide Video An early morning house fire has left a family without a home. The fire started around 1:50 this morning in Evart in Osceola County.

DNR investigators are trying to figure out what started what they say is the largest wildfire in Northern Michigan this season.

Hide Video We are following breaking news out of Osceola County where crews are battling a wildfire that is at least 50 acres, and possibly much larger.

Even when times have been tough, the Nartron Corporation in Reed City in Osceola County has managed to thrive by investing in Northern Michigan.

Hide Video A fugitive wanted in a drug investigation in Osceola County turned himself in after 3 years on the run.

Many rules and regulations for farmers existed for years in Michigan, but now, they're being enforced more and more.