The 14th annual Tour de TART, a 17-mile bicycle ride from Traverse City along the Leelanau Trail to Suttons Bay, will be held Friday rain or shine.  More...

We welcome Black Star Farms, chef Stephanie Wiitala and executive chef Jonathan Dayton, as new contributors to the county cuisine. Wiitala is a graduate of the Great Lakes Culinary Institute and the event coordinator at Black Star Farms. More...

A total of 36 students in the sixth through 12th grades at Northport Public School were named to the fourth marking period of the 2013- 14 school year.  More...

Nineteen building permits, including seven for new single-family homes, have brought the number of permits to 188 and pushed the value of new construction in the county this year to over $19 million.  More...

Why the oil and propane industry? My ex-partner asked me to come on board with him and he is no longer here so I bought him out. Now my wife and I own the business. Business History: We started right in Northport ... More...

A 47-year-old Northport woman has been sentenced in 86th District Court to one year probation after pleading guilty in a plea agreement to driving with a high blood alcohol content, according to a court report.  In return, a charge of drunken dr More...

July 16, 11:25 a.m. — Suttons Bay — People in the store last night stealing.  July 16, 6:24 p.m. — Bingham Township — Grill caught fire while caller was cooking bacon. About 20 feet from the nearest structure.  More...

The Windy Ridge Boys will perform tomorrow starting at 5 p.m. at a reception for the Art Leelanau Benefit and Exhibition.  The 22nd annual event, which features 90 Leelanau artists, will be at the Old Art Building.  More...

A beautiful day had both the streets and the beach in Empire crowded for Anchor Day, the annual celebration that is inspired by the anchor found off Empire Beach by a couple of people on a canoe excursion in 1977.  More...

Editor’s note: This is another story in a summer series of hands-on activities exploring Leelanau County. Next week we’ll go out on a marine patrol on Glen Lake. More...

The Omena Historical Society’s (OHS) summer classes have been a huge success so far. Edee Joppich’s Beginner Watercolor class has produced some enthusiastic and budding talent in Omena. More...

THE ENDANGERED monkey-flower can be observed without harm thanks to a new deck dedicated last week at Old Settlers Park. More...

Holy Rosary Church located north of Cedar, will host its annual Summer Festival and Chicken Dinner Sunday.  Volunteers are gearing up for the annual event, which will feature “Smaczne” chicken and dressing, vegetable, mashed potatoes More...

Amy Merriman and Zach Sommerfield, both of Orlando, Fla., were married May 24 at the Williamsburg Creekside.  Rich Kriesel officiated the ceremony. The couple honeymooned in France and Italy for 10 days.  More...

THE WHALEBACK is one of several cliffs in Leelanau that formed when glacial ice retreated more than 10,000 years ago. More...

From Empire Bluffs at the south end of the county to the Clay Cliffs Natural Area in Leland Township, Leelanau County’s western shoreline offers up perches with spectacular views, thanks to glaciers that carved out the landscape.  The are More...

Visitors and even locals who admire sunsets over Lake Michigan and the Manitou Islands from a popular viewing deck in Leland’s Fishtown may not be aware that there is an entire landscape in front of them that they simply cannot see.  More...

For the past two years, Leelanau Clean Water has been compiling information regarding water quality in freshwater sources through out the peninsula to create the Leelanau County Water Quality Monitoring Handbook 2014-2015.  More...

Tourists visiting the Leelanau area often take home a Petoskey stone as a unique memento of their time spent on northern Michigan’s beaches.  Some local residents have buckets of the fossilized coral that they’ve collected over the y More...