Rising waters
Continuing coverage of rising water levels across northern Michigan:
TRAVERSE CITY — It’s busy work fighting back the Great Lakes.
A crew from Team Elmer's began to demolish a Benzie County cabin perched precariously on the edge of an eroding Lake Michigan bluff on Monday …
TRAVERSE CITY — Swells have eaten at beachfronts and swallowed shorelines bit by bit as lake levels compete with record highs. But that just m…
FRANKFORT — Chipped plates, stray socks and mismatched furniture have been swept out of the Miller cottage along with sand tracked in by 54 ye…
Michiganders normally celebrate water. We love the stuff. We drink it and use it to make everything from soup to beer. We swim in it and sail,…
TRAVERSE CITY — One area water guru compares living with Great Lakes high water levels to living on the top floor of a 100-story skyscraper.
TRAVERSE CITY — A rainy weekend followed by the season’s first swirl of snow corroded the Grand Traverse County Road Commission manager’s alre…
TRAVERSE CITY — Rainstorms dumped 4.4 inches in 36 hours on Traverse City, and its sewage system didn’t overflow, city Municipal Utilities Dir…
TRAVERSE CITY — Heavy rains in recent days haven’t caused sewage to gush out of Traverse City’s sewage system like they did early to mid-summe…
TRAVERSE CITY — A battering ram of system thunderstorms brought damage and flooding to Traverse City and much of northwest Lower Michigan.
TRAVERSE CITY — Jeff Malkiewicz celebrated the $1 million purchase of a Cass Road warehouse for his growing business, Great Lakes Malting, thr…
FRANKFORT — After a public outcry a Frankfort condominium association withdrew a request for an easement to build a stone revetment seawall on…
TRAVERSE CITY — Chlorinated solvents still linger underneath an East Front Street property decades after the dry cleaner there folded.
TRAVERSE CITY — A January prediction by a road official that the closure of Bluff Road on Old Mission Peninsula could be long-term proved true…
TRAVERSE CITY — Federal authorities said Great Lakes water levels have crested for the season, save for Lake Superior.
TRAVERSE CITY — Two outstanding items from Traverse City's strategic planning session are back on the agenda.
TRAVERSE CITY — Traverse City this week will begin construction of a temporary containment area around the low point of the city’s sewer syste…
TRAVERSE CITY — More than seven miles of Traverse City’s sewer lines are buried lower than Lake Michigan’s latest, record-high level.
TRAVERSE CITY — Federal and local experts said Lakes Michigan and Huron may be at or near peak levels before the seasonal drop is expected to …
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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