State regulators approved renewable energy plans for 40 publicly owned utilities around Michigan, including Traverse City Light & Power Co.

It doesn't get more appropriate than this. The Water Studies Institute at Northwestern Michigan College is launching an associate's degree program this fall in freshwater studies -- smack in the middle of the largest living freshwater lab on planet Earth.

There are fewer master sommeliers on this continent than NFL quarterbacks, and Ron Edwards is one of them, which means he is supremely qualified to use all of those snooty-sounding wine words and some other words that aren't. Like, on the subject of cherry wine, his evaluation is as follows: "Ghastly, most of the time." "There are a very few ...

Posted: 6-17-2009 Board wants Oceana included in wind report Oceana County Administrator Sue Johnson was directed June 11 to draft a letter to the Wind Energy Resource Zone board, advocating Oceana County being named as an additional area that has 'highest level of wind energy harvest potential.' The county board of commissioners directed Johnson ...

June 9, 2009 - The Michigan Department of Energy, Labor & Economic Growth and the Michigan Municipal League today announce the Michigan Green Communities Challenge, a program designed to provide communities with tools to incorporate energy efficiency and conservation strategies.

One Northern Michigan car dealership asked the community to start their engines for a good cause.

Tonight bus agencies in Charlevoix and Antrim counties are re-thinking how they get passengers between the two areas.

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CHARLEVOIX, Mich. - A 14-year-old boy accused of cutting a 9-year-old girl's throat in Charlevoix County is being charged as an adult.

The Charlevoix County Community Foundation just gave around $5,000 to the Lake Charlevoix Association to help eradicate the invasive plant, phragmites.