Whether you're a seasoned traveler or a first-time visitor, the Town Crier has chronicled the Island’s hidden treasures and must-see spots for the 2024 season.

Mackinac Island is once again in the running for USA Today's 10Best Readers' Choice Awards' Best Summer Travel Destination. Voting is open until noon on Monday, May 12. Votes can be cast daily at USA ...

Mark Harris Chambers, age 71, of Mackinac Island, Michigan, died on Sunday, April 20, 2025, at his home surrounded by his family. He was born on June 13, 1953, in Petoskey, Michigan, to Patrick and ...

Mackinac Island is beginning to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of the destructive ice storm that rocked the Upper Peninsula and the northern reaches of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula from Friday, ...

Whether you're a seasoned traveler or a first-time visitor, the Town Crier has chronicled the Island’s hidden treasures and must-see spots for the 2024 season.

Last week was one for the record books. In the more than sixty years that I have lived on the Island, I don’t believe that I have ever experienced anything like it. Usually, if we have a freezing rain ...

The City of Mackinac Island general election will be held Tuesday, May 6, 2025. Polls will be open at Community Hall from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. Mayor Margaret Doud is running uncontested for reelection ...

Much of the Mackinac Island State Park is presently closed as repairs continue following the ice storm that blasted the area from Friday, March 28, to Monday, March 31. The ice storm caused a massive ...

The Mackinac Island Community Theatre, a program of the Mackinac Arts Council, staged its children’s production with two performances of Roald Dahl’s “Willy Wonka, Jr.” Friday, March 7, and Saturday, ...

Monday, April 7, Mackinac woke up to a snow-covered Island and people running snowmobiles. Spring is having a very hard time coming this year. The tulips at Grand Hotel were poking through the ...

The St. Ignace City Council is looking to make more local housing available for residential use by combatting an overabundance of short-term rental and Mackinac Island employee housing properties. The ...