Federal officials early this year detected highly contagious influenza in wild birds in over 30 U.S. states, the biggest avian flu outbreak since 2015.
We cannot continue to have Oxfords and Uvaldes every year. Our alternatives are either to change the ease of obtaining guns or harden the security of school buildings, or both.
The southern Michigan city's library is considering a proposal to ban books about the boy wizard, the latest in a series of controversies statewide over racy graphic novels and books about LGBTQ and civil rights that have made library board meetings a lot less sleepy lately.
The 15 Michigan counties with the highest suicide rates from 2005 through 2020 were all rural. Experts point to isolation, job loss and lack of mental health care as key contributors to rural despair.
Universities are rushing to create workers for Michigan’s booming cannabis industry. That can get tricky because federal law prevents students from actually touching marijuana.
Data compiled by the Institute for Public Utilities at Michigan State University shows that water prices are climbing quickly — more quickly, until recent price spikes, than most other goods and services.
After years of deferred maintenance, big upgrades are coming to Belle Isle and picturesque Tahquamenon Falls. But there are also potholes to fill, toilets and sewers to replace and electrical systems to modernize.
Michigan’s messiest primary may be Up North, where Republican activists offered one candidate a government job to drop out of the race and a conservative radio host is running as a Democrat.
The risk of keeping Line 5 open or building a new pipeline does not outweigh the very real harms that can and will result from its continued operation.
The best way to make this already safe pipeline even safer is to move forward with the plan to get it out of the water and into the Great Lakes Tunnel, far below the Straits of Mackinac.
Samples taken from the big lake revealed widespread PFAS contamination of rainbow smelt, a popular sport fish. State officials advise consuming no more than a few smelt a month for safety reasons.
Demand for seasonal workers from other countries is setting a record this year. That leaves Northern Michigan’s hospitality industry struggling to fill the worker positions that drive tourism.
Hunting, trapping expanded to nine more counties. Michigan says populations are stable enough to support the expansion, but the vote comes as other states move away from such hunts.
