Fake listings, real losses: Facebook housing scams target Traverse City area renters

Interlochen Public Radio
Traverse City Facebook groups are being flooded by fake real estate listings, featuring photos of real properties and luring in renters with affordable prices.
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Minimum wage campaign gearing up for referendum push

Interlochen Public Radio
If successful, the referendum would repeal bipartisan compromise legislation that passed in February.
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2 Michigan beaches closed, under contamination advisories going into Father’s Day weekend

2 Michigan beaches closed, under contamination advisories going into Father’s Day weekend
Great Lakes Commission
Beaches are tested regularly in Michigan by the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy and their statuses are updated frequently. Over Father’s Day weekend beaches in Chippewa and Muskegon […]
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Counting the Kirtland’s warbler

Interlochen Public Radio
Volunteers and conservation groups and agencies are in the jack pine forests this week, counting the Kirtland's warbler which almost went extinct in the 1980s because of loss of habitat.
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Thousands gather across northern Michigan for ‘No Kings’ protests

Interlochen Public Radio
In Elk Rapids, Charlevoix and Petoskey protesters carried signs and gathered in high traffic areas. Thousands gathered in Traverse City.
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Gold pocket watch from ‘Titanic of the Great Lakes’ returns home after 165 years

Gold pocket watch from ‘Titanic of the Great Lakes’ returns home after 165 years
Great Lakes Commission
A gold pocket watch connects a Lake Michigan beach town to an English port town. It’s a homecoming 165 years in the making, weaving invisible strings between a British parliament […]
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Great Lakes states and provinces to host seventh annual Aquatic Invasive Species Landing Blitz

Great Lakes states and provinces to host seventh annual Aquatic Invasive Species Landing Blitz
Great Lakes Commission
Ann Arbor, Michigan – Organizations across the region will come together to educate the public about aquatic invasive species (AIS) during the seventh annual Great
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Four injured in crash involving LTC bus, police cruiser

Four injured in crash involving LTC bus, police cruiser
London Free Press
A passenger on a London Transit bus suffered serious injuries when it collided with a London police cruiser in downtown London on Wednesday. The collision involving the bus and the marked police cruiser occurred at about 1:50 p.m. in the area of Queens Avenue and Talbot Street, London police said. One passenger on the bus […]
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Tiny fish tags helped identify oldest recorded lake trout in Lake Michigan

Tiny fish tags helped identify oldest recorded lake trout in Lake Michigan
Great Lakes Commission
A 35-inch, 16-pound lake trout caught by an angler in 2023 out of the port of Sheboygan, Wisconsin contained a coded wire tag that was the oldest on record according […]
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Search for missing plane continues in Lake Superior, nearly 60 years after it disappeared

Search for missing plane continues in Lake Superior, nearly 60 years after it disappeared
Great Lakes Commission
Experts searching for plane wreckage in Michigan’s Lake Superior found logs and rocks on the bottom but no debris from an aircraft that crashed nearly 60 years ago carrying three […]
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Northern Michigan fish company joins Great Lakes initiative to reduce fish waste

Northern Michigan fish company joins Great Lakes initiative to reduce fish waste
Great Lakes Commission
A Northern Michigan fish company is joining forces with a group of leaders from around the Great Lakes to tackle fish waste by finding innovative ways to fully utilize each […]
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Benson articles of impeachment introduced in the Michigan House

Interlochen Public Radio
A Republican lawmaker in the Michigan House accuses Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, of exceeding her authority and failing to secure elections.
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