Grace Walker
Newsroom InternContact Grace Walker:
📧 walke1ge@cmich.edu 📞 989-774-3105
Grace Walker is a newsroom intern for WCMU and The Alpena News.
She is also the news editor at the student-run newspaper Central Michigan Life and president of the Society of Professional Journalist chapter at Central Michigan University.
Walker is a senior working on a double major in journalism and political science. She has been working at CM-Life since 2024. Before CMU, she worked as one of the last reporters for Michigan Times, the student-run newspaper at the University of Michigan - Flint.
After graduation, Walker wants to pursue a career in political reporting. Her two favorite destinations in Michigan are Marquette, for her love of Lake Superior and the Upper Peninsula and her hometown Flint, Michigan.
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A 33-year-old man was airlifted by the U.S. Coast Guard after experiencing medical issues near Harrisville at 12:45 a.m. on Monday, June 22. -
Thirty six state senators and 10 state representatives signed letters on June 10 and 11 asking the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) to expand pay raises for starting correction officers to all correction facilities in the state. This comes after MDOC announced that it would increase the starting pay to $10,000 yearly for five corrections facilities in the Upper Peninsula. -
Two months after historic floods wiped through northern Michigan, the small, privately-owned Bucks Pond Dam that failed in April received several violations from Michigan's Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy. -
Road commissioners across Northern Michigan are deciding whether to join a new organization that wants to give rural roads more of a voice in Lansing. The alliance was created by road commissioners from Isabella, Mackinac and Houghton counties. -
After 78 years of standing in between Roberts Lake and Twin Lakes Creek, the Roberts Lake Dam will be removed in August. -
Polling shows the progressive candidate is in a tight primary race for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat. -
After a series of snow storms and historic floods earlier this year, northern Michigan has seen the wettest winter and spring on record. -
The Alpena High School Underwater Research Robotics team will be heading to Canada for the MATE worlds championship at the end of June. -
The latest forest health highlights report published by Michigan's Department of Natural Resources states the forests are in overall good health. -
In partnership with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Ferris State University is now developing the state's first dental therapy program to help make dental care more accessible.
