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We're Number 1! Check out these 3 things Grand Rapids was the first to do in America.

Mark Twain’s impression of the Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids Plank Road was that 'It would have been good if some unconscionable scoundrel had not now and then dropped a plank across it.'

Here are some of the most bizarre and unique inland lake names across the state of Michigan.

An interesting piece of history that also tells a story of its day sits in a rural area of southern Michigan and lies just beneath a busy interstate highway

Over the years, we have heard of some creative ways that law enforcement gets a "one up" on criminals, but this one takes the cake. Well, the wedding cake I suppose.

The reason? It was hundreds of millions of years ago.

A Michigan man became an unlikely hero the day he set a record and took home the only gold medal for Team U.S.A.

The modern Olympic Games began in 1896 in Athens, Greece, reviving a very different form of the ancient games that used to take place in Olympia, Greece between 800 BC and 400 AD.

This one was a doozie, to say the least. Even by U.P. standards.

The Toledo Compromise was made on December 14, 1836, which gave Michigan a vast region of land to the north

Studies conducted by scientists from the University of Michigan in 2021 have shed light on some very interesting connections between sinkholes in Lake Huron and the development of life on Earth as we know it.

On the anniversary of the Apollo 1 tragedy, Michigan remembers the hero native who perished in a pre-launch test in a program that eventually put the first man on the moon.