Lake County News

The closed - and recently expanded - prison near Baldwin is being considered as a possible home for low-security federal prisoners from foreign countries.

Half a million dollars in grants from the Michigan Development Corporation is making its way to a Lake County community.

Lake County's Yates Township will receive grants totaling $620,046 to fund projects in the historic community of Idlewild, once one of the most popular resort destinations for African-Americans in the Midwest.

Hide Video A fourth suspect is in jail accused of several break-ins in two counties that racked up more than $15,000 in stolen property.

A 71-year-old woman who has Alzheimer's disease walked away from her Logan Township home Wednesday afternoon and spent much of the night outdoors.

The old Ludington Coast Guard Station in the process of being transferred to the Mason County Historical Society is one of three local sites nominated Tuesday by the State Historic Preservation Review Board to the National Register of Historic Places.

The Lake County Sheriff's Department spent the day cleaning up several inches of sewer water from its administration offices.

The first school district will be able to take advantage of Michigan's Promise Zone scholarship program this year.

A tiny rural school district where nine out of 10 students come from needy families is offering high school graduates $5,000 a year for four years to fulfill their college dreams.

Police arrested a Baldwin man on Tuesday after discovering dozens of marijuana plants at his home and in a field he tended to.

When it came time to retire, the Walkers looked all around the country and kept coming back to a tiny northern Michigan community where she'd spent her summers as a child -- Idlewild.

As part of Governor Jennifer M. Granholm's Idlewild, Michigan Transformation Initiative , the Michigan Historical Commission will dedicate five Michigan Historical Markers in the Lake County resort community on Saturday, Aug.

A business in the Upper Peninsula is peddling a people-powered variation on the federal government's cash-for-clunkers program.

Hide Video The search for a northern Michigan inmate who escaped is over. The sheriff tells 9&10 News that officers arrested Kevin Waller in Toledo.

Investigators say their suspicions were spot on when it came to a fire in Lake County.

Hide Video Fire destroyed an abandoned Lake County home this afternoon, and investigators are calling it suspicious.

Hide Video Fire destroyed an abandoned Lake County home this afternoon, and investigators are calling it suspicious.

Police in Lake County are searching for an inmate who escaped from a residential re-entry program at the TRV Center in Baldwin.

Hide Video Fire destroyed an abandoned Lake County home this afternoon, and investigators are calling it suspicious.

Hide Video Fire destroyed an abandoned Lake County home this afternoon, and investigators are calling it suspicious.