Report for America

“There's a lot of empty roofs that could be doing good things and making some Pure Michigan, clean electricity as I like to call it.”

The City of Mackinac Island cobbled together a plan Aug. 14 on how to move forward with only one of the island's two passenger ferry services in operation.

A new water tower went up in Cheboygan recently, but it's just one part of a roughly $30 million project to overhaul the city's outdated drinking water system.

If signed into law, the federal funding would cover the project costs for the 2025 fiscal year. So far, $1.97 billion has already gone into the project.

Scott Allen Thompson, 56, of Hawks, was arraigned Aug. 2 following an animal cruelty investigation. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said it found ten dead animals on his property and numerous others starving, without water and living in "poor conditions."

The Ohio Air National Guard is investigating what caused a malfunction that forced a pilot to drop two fuel tanks from 12,000 feet in the air over Iosco County and into Lake Huron. No injuries have been reported.

A new monitoring system in the Manistee River will soon help researchers keep a closer eye on a threatened fish species.

A reservoir in a northern Michigan state forest will soon be drained to restore a beloved dam.

Natural foam is usually off-white and has an earthy smell, but some foam — that’s artificially white — contains toxic “forever chemicals” on the beaches of Oscoda.

A conservation organization claims the Maple River is among the first in the country to be returned to its free-flowing state.