As for voting misunderstandings, Lutz says the most common one involves geography. Traverse City has a population of about 16,000, but Grand Traverse County has about 97,000, meaning many voters live ...

We asked candidates to answer two simple questions: what inspired them to run for their position, and what their top ...

Another November election is upon us and with it, a slew of proposals, candidates, and millages to learn about. In the meantime, we reached out to northern Michigan’s political organizations to weigh ...

His book, This Cursed Beautiful Land, is described as “an extraordinary, deeply reported chronicle” of Russia and its people.

Back in the nineties and early aughts, the Cherryland Center in Traverse City was a bustling shopping center at the intersection of Garfield and South Airport roads. But the rise of online shopping, ...

Grown-ups, Halloween is still for us! Here are three ways to celebrate in Petoskey on Saturday. First, dig your running shoes out of their grave and lace up for the Morally Grey 5K, presented by the ...

Every schoolchild knows the tale of how Mrs. O’Leary’s cow (supposedly) kicked over a lantern in a Chicago barn, igniting one of the most famous fires in American history. While the Great Chicago Fire ...

It’s dark beer season, and we love celebrating it in all its shades of glory, from chocolatey porters to sweet, smooth doppelbocks to boozy imperial stouts. If you’ve been a dark beer skeptic in the ...

Traverse City’s signature festival is here at last, and there’s a lot that goes into this annual celebration before, during and after the big week itself. Northern Express checked in with the folks at ...

It’s officially spooky season, folks, which means it’s high time to stack your TBR list with tales of all things terrifying. If you ask Michigan author Teagan Olivia King, however, not all of our ...

This fall, Interlochen began work on the Interlochen Community Art Trail, a 3.5-mile “non-motorized trail connecting parks, schools, campgrounds, neighborhoods, businesses, and cultural destinations ...

Within 24 hours of Katie Zacharia’s firing, Trump’s short-lived press secretary, social media erupted with glee over her spectacular rise and fall from grace (or was it waste?). This glee had all the ...