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Aug 27 2025 // Amid stacked rows of brightly colored plastic kayaks and canoes, Khrystal Crosno recently helped an Ann Arbor family begin a floating trip along the scenic AuTrain River.The Earl family should spot turtles, herons and...
Sep 18 2025 // After decades of scouring the bottom of Lake Michigan, searchers have finally found the wreckage of a “ghost ship” that sank during a ferocious storm almost 140 years ago off the Wisconsin coastline.The...
Nov 13 2025 // In the summer, the board in mostly rural Niles Township gave a preliminary OK to 21 cannabis stores along one road currently dotted with businesses and surrounded by farmland.On Tuesday, Nov. 4, voters rejected them all....
Aug 18 2025 // A jury awarded nearly $60 million last week to a man who accused a disgraced Michigan prosecutor and a police officer of violating his rights in filing sexual abuse charges in a case that was ultimately dismissed by the...
Jul 31 2025 // A Michigan prosecutor filed a terrorism charge this wek against a man accused of stabbing 11 people at a Walmart store. The charge has been rarely used in the state’s courts since it was adopted more than 20 years...
Jun 30 2025 // Jeffrey Bell watched as crews dug up and replaced neighbors’ lead water pipes, hoping his mother’s house would be next. Workers told him it wasn’t on their list but probably assigned to another...
Aug 12 2025 // A judge has stopped government contractors in five states from sending hazardous waste to a Michigan landfill after a year of legal challenges by Detroit-area communities concerned about possible environmental...
Mar 13 2025 // Four people have been charged in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was “incinerated” inside a pressurized oxygen chamber that exploded at a suburban Detroit medical facility, Michigan’s attorney general...
Nov 4 2025 // More than five years after first announcing stricter controls on industrial farm pollution in Michigan, state environmental regulators will finally start enforcing them.Regulations issued Wednesday by the Michigan...
Aug 18 2025 // A pickup truck went through a stop sign in rural Michigan and crashed into a van carrying members of an Amish community, killing at least six people, authorities said.The crash occurred last Tuesday afternoon in Tuscola...
Jul 7 2025 // A Michigan lawmaker has proposed legislation that would mandate auto insurance premium reductions of at least 10% on any new or renewed policy, a bill that the American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA) says...
Jan 28 2025 // While President Donald Trump took aim at the electric vehicle industry last week, there is still optimism about the industry’s future in Michigan, a state retooling from America’s most recognizable auto hub to...
Aug 6 2025 // Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer told President Donald Trump that his tariffs are having a negative effect on her state’s flagship auto industry during a closed-door meeting at the White House.Whitmer, a...
Sep 10 2025 // East Jordan Plastics, Inc., a manufacturer of plastic horticultural containers, will pay $460,000 and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Nov 25 2025 // ALM Freight, LLC, an Amazon Delivery Service Partner company, and LMDmax Corp., violated federal law at ALM’s Pontiac, Michigan facility by failing to provide a reasonable accommodation for a deaf job applicant after...
Feb 3 2025 // A pressurized oxygen chamber exploded Friday, killing a 5-year-old patient and injuring his mother at a suburban Detroit medical facility.The hyperbaric chamber explosion occurred about 8 a.m. at the Oxford Center in Troy,...
Jun 27 2025 // A group is ending a 20-year search for a plane that crashed into Lake Michigan in 1950, killing all 58 people on board, after sweeping the vast body of water using sonar technology and even getting support from an...
Sep 23 2025 // Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has reached two settlement agreements with the current and past owners of a paper mill in White Pigeon, Michigan. The two settlements secure funding for response activities to address...
May 1 2025 // The Trump administration sued Michigan and Hawaii seeking to block the states from suing oil companies for damage caused by climate change, less than two months after the US Supreme Court rebuffed a Republican bid to...
Oct 21 2025 // Rockford Mutual Insurance Company (RMIC) announced the official launch of commercial auto coverage in Michigan, effective immediately.With this latest addition, RMIC now offers a complete suite of commercial insurance...