The lights went down in the Lars Hockstad Auditorium and hundreds of movie-goers wearing 3-D glasses laughed together at the first image of a big, fat cane toad.

Back when Michael Sullivan started recruiting musicians for the Traverse City Film Festival, he had to fill many empty slots himself.

Read more: Local , Death Investigation , Great Wolf Lodge Death Investigation , Grand Traverse County Sheriff's Office TRAVERSE CITY -- The Grand Traverse County Sheriff's Office is releasing new information about a death investigation at the Great Wolf Lodge.A Matthew McCrimmon, 33, was found unresponsive in his hotel room around 10:30 a.m.

Aweek of vacation in the upper reaches of Michigan can do the mind and soul good.

Steve Barber played polka on the radio for years. But he and the NewsTalk 580 WTCM music program "The Polkalodeon" will go off air after a final broadcast at 9:05 a.m. Saturday.

Cpl. Paul James Miller was more than just a Marine. He was an athlete, who once led his Lake Ann Little League team to victory over its rival with a triple in the final inning.

For almost 20 years, the Veterans Memorial Park in Traverse City has been located near the intersection of Division Street and the Grandview Parkway.

Share + Jul 29, 2010 3:08 pm US/Eastern JOHN FLESHER, Associated Press Writers TRAVERSE CITY, Mich.

U of M screen arts and cultures professor Hugh Cohen talks about trouble he faced in the late 1960s for showing a controversial film that's considered tame by today's standards during Wednesday's "How to Be Smart by Going to the Movies in a Dumbed-Down Society," panel at the City Opera House.

Jennifer Granholm says U.S. flags in Michigan should fly at half-staff in memory of Marine Cpl.

Skies will be partly cloudy overnight. Look for a breeze up to 15 mph...maybe stronger near Lake Michigan.

Read more: Local , State , Education , Community , Environment , Outdoors , News , Northwestern Michigan College , Water Studeies Institute , Erika Erickson , Research Project , Freshwater Studies , Traverse City , Michigan Sea Grant , Grand Traverse Bay TRAVERSE CITY -- A new underwater research project is giving Northwestern Michigan College ...

Call us conventional, but my wife and I will celebrate our wedding anniversary with the ubiquitous movie date.

Michael Moore used to believe that tough times produced great movies. The Depression years are often referred to as the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Randy Agruda of Traverse City has been appointed to a third term on the board of the Michigan Fire Fighters Training Council.