Cass County Sheriff Bryan Welk said he responded to the incident at 5:48 p.m. at a resort on Big Sand Lake, west of Remer. Welk said the call came in as a man had drowned.

MEARS, Mich. — A 12-year-old Petoskey boy is in the hospital after being trapped in a sand dune at Silver Lake State Park Sunday, according to the Oceana County Sheriff's Office.

“Big Sand Lake is basically a dumping ground, a retention pond for the 5,000 acres that flow into it. And now we’ve taken so much water up and down at such a rate it can’t handle it.” ...

OCEANA COUNTY, Mich,. (WPBN/WGTU) - - A 9-year-old boy is safe after being buried under sand dunes at Silver Lake State Park for about five minutes and receivi ...

Today, we got everything ready to go to Big Sand Lake and then took off for Winnipeg. We arrived in Winnipeg about 4:30 p.m. and met Bob Kerr and Jeff Awes, the WDAZ guys. We woke up at 4:30 a.m ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Residents in the area near Doctor Philips and Big Sand Lake say they are concerned about their homes. WATCH CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS They say they’ve been watching the ...

Silver Lake State Park is a summer hot spot but off-season activities include shoreline horseback riding, fat-tire biking and even sledding. (Joel Marotti) Joel Marotti for the MI Dept. of ...