Grape growers are planting hybrid grapes that can withstand colder temperatures, irrigating their vines rather than relying on natural rainfall and turning to new strategies to ensure healthy soil.

A years-long staffing shortage has turned 16-hour mandatory shifts into a daily reality for corrections officers in Michigan's prison system, impacting the safety and wellbeing of nearly everyone inside prison walls.

Michigan has tried raises, bonuses, and prison safety initiatives, but nothing has moved the needle on corrections officers vacancies. No state has found a lasting solution.

Things are especially dire in the Upper Peninsula, where a quarter of prisoners are housed but nearly three-fourths of staff assaults happen and as many as 1 in 3 positions are open.

After their father was detained at the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, two sisters from Grand Rapids committed to helping other detainees.

Elementary students in Mesick Consolidated Schools will no longer be using computers in the classroom as the district shifts gears towards a focus on literacy education.

The effort to repeal zoning rules was spearheaded by Marv Rubingh, a township board member who is trying to gain approval for a gravel mine on his property.

A longtime resident of Banks Township in northwest Michigan's Antrim County is seeking approval to build a 183-acre gravel mine on his property.

Michigan has lost thousands of farms in recent years as farmers retire or sell their land. A new program connects aspiring farmers with farmers looking to retire so those farms might continue.

Workforce cuts made by the Trump administration at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are prompting meteorologists to debate the reliability of weather predictions.