Houghton Lake News

A Houghton Lake man likely will spend 41 to 51 months in federal prison for bilking customers out of more than $900,000 in two schemes.

Eight students from Saginaw Valley State University are making a weekend out of an initiative usually reserved for week-long trips.

Fourteen-year-old Alma Bultsma remembers the very first gift she ever received -- a simple shoebox filled with hair ties, a stuffed animal, a bracelet and a hair brush.

Making sure drivers follow the law is what state police look out for, and you can expect to see more of them enforcing drivers' safety starting next Monday.

A 20-year-old Roscommon man remained jailed in connection with an early-morning crime spree in Crawford County.

Snow may be falling Up North, but there's still no white stuff in sight for metro Detroit.

HOUGHTON LAKE - After driving about 45 minutes up the center of the state, we decided to stop for coffee.

Hide Video Some Northern Michigan State Troopers are celebrating a big win for their shooting skills.

A state fire marshal is looking for the cause of a pair of blazes that damaged a Houghton Lake ice cream shop.

One of the last images Sherry L. Airgood remembers before passing out - as she lay in a ditch following a horrific crash on Interstate 75 - was her dog, Jax, running away.

The opening weeks of the waterfowl season have been fair to middling in most of the state, yet few hunters are complaining.

13, 1845. He was 36. The city of Houghton, Houghton Lake and Houghton County are named for the University of Michigan professor of chemistry, mineralogy and geology.

The staff at the Nakomis Challenge Center are also keeping a close eye on the budget battle in Lansing.

ST. CLAIR -- Re-enactors at Palmer Park in St. Clair for Fort Sinclair Days were roughing it more than usual Sunday because of cold, rainy weather.

The Graduate Student Union elected four interim positions on Thursday. Those positions included president, vice president, communications chair and bargaining team chief spokesman.

Friends of a Crawford County man aided in his arrest after he allegedly opened fire on them and his parents.

People all around mid-Michigan and the state's northern reaches are bound to be hearing a lot in the coming months about Central Michigan University's up and coming medical school.

According to the calendar, it is here. The first day of fall was Tuesday. I missed it completely.

A shot from a Taser wasn't the only repercussion authorities dealt a St. Clair Shores man who allegedly led police on a high-speed chase through Roscommon County on Tuesday.

Prosecutors charged a 23 year-old Mt. Pleasant man with assault with intent to murder for forcing a car his ex-girlfriend was riding in off the road and into a utility pole.