Empire News

A piece of a shipwreck that experts believe is from a schooner that sank 140 years ago has washed up along Lake Michigan at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

An aerial photo of the On The Narrows Marina on Glen Lake on Labor Day in 1998. Greg Schmid's family lives adjacent to the marina, which would triple in size under a proposed expansion.

EMPIRE, Mich. - U.S. Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin say that Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore has received a $1.3 million federal transportation grant to continue work on a 27-mile hike-and-bike trail.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- The Obama administration says it will be more flexible when pushing financially struggling cities to upgrade their sewage systems to prevent overflows that foul U.S. waterways with harmful bacteria and viruses.

Dreams of a white Christmas are hanging by a thread in the North, where unusually mild weather has left the ground bare in many places - a welcome reprieve for people who don't like shoveling, but a lump of coal in the stockings of outdoor sports buffs who miss their winter wonderland.From New England to the Dakotas and even parts of the Northern ... (more)