LANSING — A new Government Accountability Office study of hazardous waste facilities found them at risk of damage from climate-related events such as flooding and hurricanes. Some are in the six-state Great Lakes region, including ones near southern Lake Michigan. According to the ...

Stepping out to the wet street that morning, the capitol was covered in a feathery veil of snowflakes, the lights shining in a yellowish glow up high around the dome, the colorful flags folding and unfolding in the wind. At the Ottawa corner, the pines and other trees decorating the stately ...

LANSING — It’s been one year since Michigan Democrats introduced legislation that would significantly change the state’s environmental regulations. But those bills are stuck in committee. Election distractions, negotiation, and a slim Democratic majority in the state House have kept ...

I got to the dirt road not long after the rain had stopped falling. The air was still warm though the skies were full of low-hanging gray-white clouds that socked the scene in with near foggy conditions. I opened the car door and stuck my boots into the wet gravel and began walking. I could ...

“Now they’ll always be together, in their happy hunting ground,” — J.P. Richardson In the years that I was growing up, my dad had already quit hunting deer and rabbits. He said he used to hunt both when he was younger, but that was before I knew him. I was acquainted with his ...

Trees across Michigan are just wrapping up an incredible show of fall color, with the reds, oranges and yellows of oak trees often taking center stage. That annual autumn color fest may be at risk, though, because oak trees across areas of the Lower Peninsula, as well as in Dickinson, Iron, ...