Scottville News

About 40 firefighters from four fire departments responded to a barn fire on Conrad Road Wednesday night.

One of Mason County's unsolved mysteries is the death of Melissa Simmons. Melissa was 15 when she died during the summer of 1993.

Lifeguards saved two teens from drowning at Ludington's Stearns Park Sunday and also helped a young girl who got in too deep Friday afternoon.

Former resident Edgar Struble is visiting Mason County for the next three weeks, and will be performing while here.

Tess Beadle, 16, of Scottville, left, and her friend Alyssa VanderWall, 15, of Ludington laugh together after Jamey Johnson's guitarist gave Beadle a guitar pick at the end of their act.

Becki Blamer of Scottville, who has been riding motorcycles since she was a kid, wanted to make a trek out to Alaska 'because it's the ride of a lifetime.' Blamer is riding her Harley Davidson alongside Joe Hernandez and Gary Engfer, both of Ludington, for an approximately 12,000 mile trip to Alaska.

It's been 16 years since 15 year-old Melissa Simmons of Scottville disappeared after leaving her home to meet up with some friends.

Miss Ludington Area Kaley Schroeder has begun her week of Miss Michigan competition and this morning was to go through the pageant's interview process.

When runners lined up for the 8:30 a.m. start of the 2009 Lakestride 5 kilometer and half-marathon on Saturday morning, it was mostly cloudy, the temperature was in the low 50s and there was just a trace of a breeze.

Supporters of a county-wide off-road vehicle ordinance are expected to be back at Mason County Court House tonight to speak to the Mason County Board of Commissioners.

Fords, Plymouths, Chryslers and Chevys of all types, ages and colors lined downtown Ludington Saturday during the Ludington Area Jaycees 2009 Parade of Cars Car Show.

The former husband of murder victim Joyce Lynn Douglas-Coulier was arrested Monday in Hesperia nearly nine years after her body was discovered in a wooded lot in the City of Hart.

Jolee Soberalski needs 24-hour care. She's 18 years old, doesn't speak and is autistic.

Politicians from both sides of the aisle in Lansing joined together recently to praise Mason County Central Middle School student Andrea Miller, her school and community for supporting U.S. troops serving overseas and for Miller's support provided to the family of a Marine who died in Iraq.

One of the nation's last operating coal-fired passenger ships could be left high and dry unless operators comply with new federal regulations banning its discharge of coal slurry into Lake Michigan.

The sticky-fingered returner who struck at several Mason County businesses in January may be at it again.

West Shore Bank CEO Tom Van Buren retires today after 32 years as head of West Shore Bank , leaving the community bank in a financial condition many national banks should envy - not only solvent but thriving, and saying thanks, but no thanks, to government bailout money it simply doesn't need.

The Gold Bar VFW and Auxiliary Post 5096 of Custer continued their annual tradition of honoring fallen comrades by performing five Memorial Day ceremonies Monday.

Ludington wakes from its foggy, winter slumber just as the bright, yellow forsythia start to bloom along Lake Michigan.

Ludington Memorial Day parade and service, 10:30 a.m. from Rowe Street and Ludington Avenue to Lakeshore Drive and 11 a.m. service at Veterans Memorial, Stearns Park, N. Lakeshore Drive, Ludington Scottville Memorial Day program at MCC High School, 9 a.m., cemetery visits, and Custer VFW.