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.
-
Once the dam is inspected by state officials, the Four Lakes Task Force will start to refill Smallwood Lake. -
State health officials have confirmed seven cases of cyclosporiasis in Shiawassee, joining 16 other counties with known outbreaks.
-
State officials say Kalshi illegally allows Michiganders to engage in sports gaming without proper legal protections. -
Budget contraints stemming from the tax-cap has left Saginaw's 80,000 trees on the backburner. In Midland and Bay City, urban forests are getting more attention and funding despite being smaller in size. -
Bay County is injecting its ash trees with an incestide to fend off the invasive insects, which experts say have killed 80% of the state's ash trees. -
Of the named priests and one deacon, 30 are presumed to have died. The rest are no longer active in ministry. -
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.
