Muskegon Lake's role in the community spans from the early days of lumbering to today’s growing tourism industry, with an extremely important distinction: the latter is based on a clean lake.

The city of Muskegon has $2.8 million in grants to pursue development of the property at the end of Third Street owned by the Mart Dock, which has sued the city over public access to the lake.

MUSKEGON — A new commercial port terminal is open at the site of a decommissioned Consumers Energy plant on Muskegon Lake — a step the city and port facility owner say is part of the town's ...