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Saturday, May 18, 2013  Summer is festival season in Northern Michigan and one of the first events of the season is the Asparagus Festival in Empire.

Monday, January 07, 2013  Registered dietitian Diane Roach gives easy tips on eating healthier in 2013.

Monday, September 10, 2012  Schools across Northern Michigan are joining the national effort to provide healthy foods for every student.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012  Small Midwest farmers struggle to fill orders, stay afloat as drought, heat kill vegetables

Wednesday, September 28, 2011  The efforts of one local community will extend the fresh food season and pump money into the economy.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011  If you're sitting on a coach right now or maybe in a comfy recliner, where did it come from? How about your mattress? I am not looking for the store, rather the actual country it was made in? All this month our Fact Finders have been taking a look at just how hard, or easy, it is to buy American made products. Tonight, we take a look at the furniture in our homes.

Monday, June 20, 2011  Still-struggling economy, rising food prices, food safety concerns keep gardening boom going

Thursday, May 12, 2011  The 10th Annual Festival of Tables is this weekend in Traverse City.  The event raises funds for the Child & Family Services of Northwestern Michigan.

Friday, March 25, 2011  Japan's leader calls situation 'grave' at nuclear plant where dangerous breach suspected

Wednesday, March 23, 2011  Radiation detected in Tokyo's tap water; smoke prompts new evacuation of leaking nuclear plant

Friday, October 22, 2010  A Food and Drug Administration official says the agency is looking into a produce contamination case linked to a shuttered Texas processing plant and may decide to expand a recall.