Environment

Five years after historic rainfall destroyed the Forest Lake spillway, the community is on the verge of getting their lake back after cobbling together a series of grants.

Northern Michigan continues to grapple with debris and forestry management.

The fish will be released into three northern Michigan rivers.

When the MI Healthy Climate conference kicked off earlier this month, anxieties around the nation’s climate policy likely plagued the minds of attendees, with President Donald Trump once again pulling the United States out of the Paris climate agreement and working to dismantle efforts to combat climate change and environmental injustice.

The Conservation Reserve Program incentivizes farmers to take environmentally sensitive land out of production. Project 2025 says the Trump administration should champion its elimination.

The same debris that knocked out the power a few weeks ago could be used to make electricity.

Supporters of the EPA's work in Michigan and the U.S. to protect the environment urged Congress to rein in a plan to roll back multiple pollution regulations.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is calling it the "greatest day of deregulation our nation has ever seen." But Michigan environmental groups don't think this is cause for celebration.

Scientists say amid climate change and biodiversity loss, the world’s herbaria could hold the keys to overcoming the crises in their folders of dried plant specimens. But their future is in question amid cuts to research and education funding.

The Alpena County Facilities, Capital & Strategic Planning Committee voted unanimously to have the recycling authority remove the bins after it was discovered that they sit on property Besser had deeded to the county to use solely for soccer. The committee also says trash and other non-recycled materials are often left outside the bins, making the property look unmaintained.