St. Ignace is the perfect base for fall fun in the Upper Peninsula, with its brilliant foliage, birdwatching, hiking, kayaking, and seasonal charm.

Current challenge: In our screen-focused world, children have fewer opportunities for open-ended, self- directed play—an ...

Part community hub, part design statement, Atomic Marketplace pairs coffee with craft beer and bold architecture in Traverse City’s evolving south side. Just outside the postcard-pretty polish of ...

There’s more to Traverse City than Front Street. Explore its outlying blocks and experience mouth-watering bites, historical gems, lively bars and enough nightlife to brighten the dark of winter. New ...

It happened every year on November 10: if you were listening to the radio anywhere in Michigan, you’d inevitably hear the wail of a guitar that seemed to speak in a human voice, a mournful invitation.

Shipwrecks, storms, final words: historian Ric Mixter traces the Great Lakes’ haunting messages in bottles. Before radio distress calls, sailors communicated their peril by putting farewell messages ...

This celebration is the featured event of the 16-day Les “Che-Gnome” Holiday Shopping Days, which run from November 29 ...

David “Cowboy” Weiss was a wild-hearted, cocky and freshly minted cadet from Traverse City’s new Great Lakes Maritime Academy. His first assignment: To board the Edmund Fitzgerald. One sailor’s story ...

Large Lake Superior waves crash on the Keweenaw Peninsula near Copper Harbor Michigan. Short-period waves, sudden gales and freezing spray turn freshwater into a death trap on the Great Lakes—a ...