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Safe Harbor of Grand Traverse spoke with Grand Traverse County commissioners during their meeting Wednesday morning, in hopes of finalizing a plan to extend their services year-round.

Ice cover on the Great Lakes is slightly down for this time of year, but snowfall and temperatures averaged out for the month of December, according to the National Weather Service.

Consumers Energy will have over 200 workers and contractors on-call as parts of Michigan prepare for a possible stormy Election Day. The utility company will be monitoring polls across the state and are providing a hotline for poll workers to contact in the case of a power outage.

It’s been an above-average spring for tornadoes and other severe storms in the Midwest and Great Plains. Experts say a big reason is that weather conditions were ripe for tornado-forming storms.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be visiting Kalamazoo County to survey the damage from the May 7th tornado.

Kalamazoo County Sheriff Rick Fuller said "everything indicates" one tornado was on the ground in the county Tuesday. Radar indicated a second one that may not have touched down.

The University of Michigan Biological Station at Pellston has tracked the lake’s ice cover for more than 90 years — and guessed at its annual disappearance since 1988.

After an unusually warm winter, it's stacking up to be a more typical spring, but much of the region is still in a drought.

As part of a series looking ahead to Michigan’s upcoming presidential primary and caucus, Michigan Public has been talking with Michiganders and others about what kind of presidential leadership they would like to see when it comes to infrastructure and climate change.

Winter tends to be the cloudiest part of the year, but data shows there were more overcast days than usual in parts of the region.