Tom Leonard joins a crowded Republican field, including Congressman John James, State Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt and former Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox.

The Grand Traverse Kennel Club began its annual “Cherry Capital Classic” Friday, a multi-event dog show featuring dogs of every shape and size. Taking place at the Northwestern Michigan Fairgrounds, the weekend-long event ranks dogs based on conformation, rally and obedience.

Volunteers from the North Country Trail Association were hard at work on National Trails Day, rerouting a trail that had been destroyed by a logging operation and the March ice storms.

A referendum campaign could repeal changes made to Michigan’s minimum wage law this year.

Officials said the faculty members are not currently employed by Interlochen. At least one person who's being investigated is dead.

The Trout Lake dam in Gladwin County is facing uncertainly as the Michigan Department of Natural Resources recommends its removal. Community members are now advocating to save the lake.

The 35th state Senate district has been vacant since the beginning of the year. A special election could shift the balance of power in the chamber, with Democrats only holding a one-seat majority.

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.

The Trump administration cut off nearly all funding for food and agricultural research at universities across the country as part of the Feed the Future Initiative. While some hope Congress will restore the funding, the global research continues on a much smaller scale, funded by private donors and individual universities.

The United States government promised the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation about 1,280 acres of Illinois reservation in an 1829 treaty. Instead, the U.S sold all of it illegally to white settlers. The Prairie Band is now the latest tribe in the Midwest and Great Plains to get some of their ancestral home back.