Cristin Coppess
Newsroom InternContact Cristin Coppess:
📧 coppe1cg@cmich.edu 📞 989-774-3105
Cristin Coppess is a newsroom intern at WCMU covering the Saginaw Bay region.
A rising junior, Coppess is majoring in photojournalism with a double minor in multimedia design and leadership at Central Michigan University. She hails from the Saginaw Bay area.
During the academic year, she is managing editor for CM-Life, Central Michigan University's student-run campus media company. She hopes to build a career as a photojournalist while serving as a leader in the newsroom.
Her favorite destination in Michigan is Frankfurt Beach in the summertime.
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The facility is nearing its centennial anniversary. Officials say renovations will cost $400 million, about $100 million less than it would take to build a new one. -
Saginaw County Emergency Management reported 30-40 homes were damaged by the tornado, and over 2,200 people were without power as of Tuesday night. -
No injuries were reported and the Bay City fire chief told WCMU the incident remains under investigation. -
They're the first and only city in the state of Michigan to incorporate artificial intelligence into maintaining its urban forest, which consists of over 40,000 trees. -
The bills were met with swift backlash from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources at a recent hearing in the Michigan House of Representatives. -
The yellow perch population in the Saginaw Bay has been consistently decreasing since the late 1980s. They've fallen victim to intense predation from the booming walleye population. -
Emergency personnel were deployed to a Coast Guard Station in Essexville, Michigan following reports of a possible sinkhole. The cause of the situation is unknown and is currently undergoing investigation. -
Six years after historic flooding caused by the failure of the Edenville, Sanford, Smallwood and Secord Dams devastated parts of Midland and Gladwin Counties, the Sanford Dam and it's lake are almost fully restored. -
A coalition of public transportation organizations are asking for $330 million to fund local bus operations as state lawmakers work to close a more than $1 billion gap in the upcoming budget. -
A 124-acre wildfire in the Huron-Manistee National Forest is 80% contained and some near Mio were evacuated from the area.
