Up North lighthouse likely to be swallowed by Lake Michigan after century of neglect A man spent half his life trying to save a forgotten lighthouse. But without much help, his efforts came to a ...

CARP LAKE, MICH. -- All summer long, Brent Tompkins regularly boated past the historic Waugoshance Lighthouse while ferrying visitors and volunteers to a neighboring lighthouse, White Shoal, where ...

In a Facebook post on Monday, Chris West, former president of the now-defunct Waugoshance Lighthouse Preservation Society, announced the board of directors’ decision to dissolve on account of ...

The Waugoshance Lighthouse was built in 1851 and sits in the water at the western entrance of the Mackinac Straits.

Originally for this week’s Northern Michigan in Focus we were going to tell the story of the haunting of the Waugoshance Shoal Lighthouse. But recently something else scary is happening there ...

The costs and logistics of renovating a lighthouse are, well, a challenge. So why buy one?

It was the first shoal lighthouse ever built on the Great Lakes. Chief photojournalist Corey Adkins takes us there in this week’s Northern Michigan from Above.

From the smell of cigar smoke at Seul Choix Point Light to the mysterious housekeeping at White River Light Station and the antics at Waugoshance Shoal, these stories will entertain all ages.

The Waugoshance Lighthouse will be transferred to the Waugoshance Lighthouse Preservation Society. The brick and iron structure, constructed in 1870, was once used for target practice by the US ...

Leland — Two of the four Michigan lighthouses the federal government put up for auction this summer have tentative new owners. The White Shoal Light sold for the most, at $110,009. The winning ...

Her presentation, Michigan's Ghostly Beacons, is dedicated to Michigan lighthouse keepers who loved their jobs so much that they refused to accept the gold watch despite the fact that they were dead.

The lighthouse, originally built in 1899, was made to accommodate a crew of six. When it’s finished, Schillinger said, they expect it to hold parties of 10 people or more.