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That morning, a formal ceremony will mark the passing of the baton at Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City from Joseph Buzzella to Sean Cross, who will become the station's 39th commanding officer.

The Clare County Sheriff's department said they've arrested a man on a warrant for possession of child sexually abusive material and a Transient Merchant Act violation.

This undated photo released by the Traverse City Convention & Visitors Bureau shows West End Beach in Traverse City, one of many free-of-charge beaches on Lake Michigan's Grand Traverse Bay.

If you have noticed, more people are building and preparing home gardens. All of this promotes good health.

Sustainable research and development at Grand Valley State University continues this summer with projects at the Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center that focus on harnessing wind and solar energy.

In all my years of covering business and development in Muskegon, I can't recall a back-to-back set of emails as the ones that arrived in my inbox May 3. A 728-foot-long freighter is shown offloading coal at the B.C. Cobb shipping channel.

A severe thunderstorm watch has just been issued for much of Michigan from now through 8 p.m. Here's is the copy from the Storm Prediction Center.

Zombies on the Kal-Haven trail? A scene from horror film "V/H/S/2," one of three films announced for the Waterfront Film Festival, in South Haven June 13-16. SOUTH HAVEN, MI-- To a sunny and sandy lakeshore town, they come.

A Spring Lake-Ferrysburg police cruiser hit a Dodge Caravan at Savidge Street and Lake Avenue in Spring Lake on Tuesday, May 7, while en route to another accident farther up Savidge Street.

A 30 year old man from Lake, Michigan is facing several charges after crashing his car early Saturday morning then breaking into a nearby house in Isabella County.

Meet Muskegon's mystery birds: They're duck-like, funny-looking and they eat lots of fish in the morning.

Fine art aficionados will notice some subtle yet exciting enhancements at one of Ludington's longest-running art events - the 2013 West Shore Art Fair.

So it falls to lowly pan fish to headline this week's fishing report for May 16-19. Pan fish means bluegill, perch and crappie - and whatever else you call a crappie: rock bass, speckled bass, specks, etc.

The weekend tour will be Saturday, May 18 and Sunday, May 19. The parlor, living room and formal dining room also have antique lighting fixtures believed to be original to the house.

Eleven youths were cited for minors in possession of alcohol when police located a party in Clark Lake, officials say.

The Muskegon City Commission Tuesday unanimously approved a Harris Hospitality redevelopment proposal for the beach bar property at Pere Marquette Park, and the restaurant group and city hope it will lead to much more.

Mike Brosnan, of Dowagiac, looks at a display focused on the replacement of a cooling tower at Palisades Nuclear Power Plant at an open house on May 14.

Lake Michigan is the third largest of the Great Lakes and the only Great Lake located entirely in the United States.

Earvin "Magic" Johnson spoke to a crowd at the Temple Theatre on Tuesday, April 9, 2013 for the Magic of a Promise event, in which Johnson donated $100,000 of his own money to Saginaw Promise, helping pay for local students' college tuition.

No one is going to make a major change to the Muskegon-area landscape without local residents weighing in on the plans.