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Environmental groups use anniversary of Kalamazoo River oil spill to warn about Line 5

Mon, 07/28/2025 - 19:23 Interlochen Public Radio

he massive oil spill in the Kalamazoo River 15 years ago polluted the water and shoreline and left oil-coated wildlife. More than a million gallons of oil was recovered along a more than 35 mile stretch of the river.

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Terrorism charge likely in stabbing attack at Traverse City Walmart

Sun, 07/27/2025 - 17:02 Interlochen Public Radio

All 11 of the people stabbed at a Traverse City Walmart over the weekend are expected to survive. The suspect is expected to face charges including terrorism,

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Michigan hotel taxes fund tourism promotion. Should they also fund services?

Fri, 07/25/2025 - 05:42 Interlochen Public Radio

Across northern Michigan, hotel taxes generated almost $30 million for area convention and visitors bureaus. Some in Traverse City say the money should go to the county.

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Former Woodstock hotel gets new life – built on its past

Wed, 07/23/2025 - 17:33 London Free Press

A restoration project focuses on modernizing the former Oxford Hotel while keeping the historic building’s storied past intact.

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Great Lakes Aquarium celebrates 25 years by unveiling time capsule

Wed, 07/23/2025 - 11:03 Great Lakes Commission

he Great Lakes Aquarium is making history, as well as reflecting on it, by opening their time capsule from 25 years ago when the aquarium first opened in July 2000. […]

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Hometown Guide: History + world record = London hit out of the park

Wed, 07/23/2025 - 11:00 London Free Press

ntimate Labatt Park looms large in baseball history. This is Part Two of Postmedia's How Canada Wins: Love Where We Live summer series.

Hometown Guide: From a road trip idea, a kind of time machine is born

Wed, 07/23/2025 - 10:41 London Free Press

ou can go far back in Indigenous history near Strathroy. This is Part Two of Postmedia's How Canada Wins: Love Where We Live summer series.

Great Lakes lore: A look at 4 ghost stories or tall tales about the Great Lakes

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 14:27 Great Lakes Commission

he Great Lakes have a rich history of ghost stories and maritime lore. Lake Superior’s “Shipwreck Coast” is known for numerous shipwrecks and ghost ship sightings. Read the full story […]

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Sleeping Bear historian explores the Indigenous history of Michigan’s islands

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 12:05 Great Lakes Commission

his weekend Anishinaabe historian Eric Hemenway will share more Indigenous history of the daily lives of the tribes who made the Great Lakes their homeland. Hemenway’s free classes will focus […]

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A Good, Not Great Lake

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 05:25 Interlochen Public Radio

Lake Champlain is more than 16 times smaller than Lake Ontario, the smallest Great Lake. But in 1998, Congress designated Lake Champlain as the sixth Great Lake, teeing off a historical and cultural fight over which lakes can really call themselves Great.

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Annie sets record as Stratford Festival extends four 2025 productions

Tue, 07/15/2025 - 13:09 London Free Press

Four 2025 Stratford Festival productions are being extended, pushing the season into mid-December for the first time in company history.

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How do you say it? Michigan’s tricky-to-pronounce place names

Tue, 07/15/2025 - 06:04 Interlochen Public Radio

The "You Say It How in Michigan?" website has pronunciations for hundreds of place names and even notable Michiganders like Smokey Robinson, Gilda Radner and Madonna.

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