Rising waters
Continuing coverage of rising water levels across northern Michigan:
EMPIRE — A culvert that drains South Bar Lake into Lake Michigan is failing, with high water, winds and waves clogging it with sand about once…
TRAVERSE CITY — Officials reported the second flash flood-fueled sewage spill into downtown Traverse City’s Boardman River in as many weeks du…
TRAVERSE CITY — Manitou Island Transit ferry services will not operate this season because of dock conditions on both North and South Manitou …
FRANKFORT — Dennis Nahnsen’s cottage has been in his family since 1946.
TRAVERSE CITY — Both state and federal experts advise shoreline communities and property owners to prepare for record high water levels throug…
TRAVERSE CITY — Erin Simon sat in her new clothing store at the Village at Grand Traverse Commons when she heard a strange noise — a familiar …
TRAVERSE CITY — Former marine deputy Charlie Belanger was there the night the lifeless body of 8-year-old Steven Easter was pulled out of Lake…
EMPIRE — Every few years or so, pieces of the Jennie & Annie shipwreck make an appearance on the Lake Michigan shoreline near Empire.
TRAVERSE CITY — Great Lakes water levels are shattering high records and the experts agree there is rather little that can be done to change t…
EMPIRE — They apparently couldn’t wait to get nesting.
TRAVERSE CITY — Lakes Michigan and Huron set a new water level record in April, just as federal scientists expected.
LAKE LEELANAU, Michigan — A narrow strip of land teeters between the edge of Lake Michigan and a 2- to 3-mile section of the iconic M-22 state…
BEULAH — Needed repairs at the Point Betsie Lighthouse site will move ahead after approval of a bid for a historical structure report of its s…
FRANKFORT — An ever-widening crack in the cement slab the Point Betsie Lighthouse sits on threatens to sink the historic site.
SUTTONS BAY — Three more inches of water might not sound like much.
TRAVERSE CITY — Continuing high water means the temporary Bluff Road closure on Old Mission Peninsula may be less temporary than originally planned.
TRAVERSE CITY — Lakes Michigan and Huron in December came within one centimeter — about the width of a pinky fingernail — of the 1986 high wat…
LELAND — Steel I-beams and yellow straps girded the Village Cheese Shanty for its 100-foot journey to the Leland Harbor parking lot.
TRAVERSE CITY — A portion of a shoreline road on the eastern side of Old Mission Peninsula is indefinitely closed because of high Great Lakes …
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TRAVERSE CITY — It was a year of water as the Great Lakes burst past long-standing high water marks in both fascinating and destructive ways.
LELAND — When construction crews began removing wallboard from the inside of the Village Cheese Shanty in historic Fishtown they came across a…
ELK RAPIDS — Elk Rapids has joined the ranks of Michigan’s shoreline communities that asked Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and state legislators to dec…
TRAVERSE CITY — If Gordon Lightfoot called and asked for his November back, the lakeshore property owners crowded into Peninsula Township Hall…
TRAVERSE CITY — Concerns over high water levels are on the rise, just like the Great Lakes.
LELAND — Area marinas could see ice damage this winter as Lake Michigan water levels show no sign of retreating.
LELAND — Fishtown Preservation Society received a $25,000 grant from the Consumers Energy Foundation, which will be spent toward shanty rehabi…
Record water levels are threatening Great Lakes surfing.
TRAVERSE CITY — There’s water, water everywhere, but not like 1986.
TRAVERSE CITY — Northern Michigan residents turned out in droves Wednesday night to talk about their beloved Lake Michigan with members of an …
TRAVERSE CITY — Lakes Michigan and Huron are unlike the other Great Lakes in many ways, the latest in that they didn’t bust water level record…
TRAVERSE CITY — Traverse City posted its ninth wettest June since 1930 with 5.36 inches of rainfall, according to the National Weather Service.
TRAVERSE CITY — Car enthusiasts sometimes modify suspensions to give their vehicles lower profiles.
LELAND — High water levels at the South Manitou Island dock forced the cancellation of Thursday morning's Manitou Island Transit ferry.
TRAVERSE CITY — People stopped their cars to gawk at waves lapping the parking lot of Clinch Park Marina.
TRAVERSE CITY — Lakes Superior and Erie are sporting record-setting water levels this summer. Other Great Lakes have the highest levels in mor…
BAYPORT — I could tell by the bend in his pole that Bill Horton had a pretty good fish on and was about to drop my rod and go for the camera w…
LELAND — A split-rail fence that mysteriously appeared within the Reynolds Street road end in Leland on Thursday disappeared just as mysteriou…
TRAVERSE CITY — Just how high the water will go is a scientific question which many who live in the Great Lakes region are focused on this yea…
TRAVERSE CITY — A free presentation about expected Great Lakes water levels will take place this week at Northwestern Michigan College's Great…
LELAND — Nels Carlson, owner of Carlson’s Fishery in Fishtown, was working last week when a seiche pushed the waters of Lake Michigan up over …
Editor's Note: This story was updated 5/09/2019 to correct a day of the week in an event announcement. The coastal zone management program is …
TRAVERSE CITY — Early projections call for Great Lakes waters to rise above average levels and gobble up even more shoreline beach than recent…
TRAVERSE CITY — West Grand Traverse Bay is frozen over, officially.
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