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Northern Michigan’s dream retirement is real, but so are the expenses that come with finally having the time to enjoy it. There’s often a specific fantasy that drives retirees who land Up North. Maybe ...

The freedom of a lock-and-leave lifestyle. In Northern Michigan, the good life has a rhythm all its own: long summer evenings on the water, dinner on the deck with friends, brilliant color tours, ...

Skip the Rock is an online journal that helps rockhounders log, identify and map over 48 Great Lakes stones and fossils for free, no download required. For those of us who have never given rocks much ...

Halloween comes early on Mackinac Island. Celebrate with the Great Turtle Trail Run, trick-or-treating for kids and Halloween costume parties for adults throughout island establishments. Michigan ...

Former colleagues from the now-closed Brilliant Books launched Artemis Books and Goods in Traverse City, evolving their ...

Kelly and Matt Bulloch successfully restored Hull House, a historic 1894 Queen Anne Victorian in Traverse City, preserving ...

There’s a lot to be said for having less house and more life outside it. Especially when the house sits on one Traverse ...

The Custom Sauna The cold-plunge-and-sauna cycle may be a recent wellness trend in the big city, but in Northern Michigan, it ...

Mark Wanner of KRÄM Construction & Design completed a custom five-bedroom farmhouse designed to accommodate his large family ...

The native shrub witch hazel provides late-autumn color in Michigan's forests while offering both medicinal benefits and ...

From a ghost ship in Manistee to a haunted forest in Kalkaska, here’s where to get your fright fix this Halloween season.