Environment

The state's high court says the Michigan Public Service Commission failed to fully consider the project's potential environmental impacts.

Facing a crowd of local residents — the majority of whom were against the project — the Wexford Joint Planning Commission on Monday unanimously recommended against a zoning amendment that would've advanced a plan for a 1,500-acre solar array.

Paddlers will spend roughly 15 hours in the river during the 78th running of this non-stop, ultra-endurance competition.

For the first time, Michigan's Fisheries Division is getting funding specifically for whitefish recovery, but officials say it's not enough to solve the ecosystem issues causing the species' decline.

Under the agreement with the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy, nearly 500 acres will be permanently protected and the YMCA Hayo-Went-Ha Camps will gain millions to put toward needed maintenance of its historic facilities.

Researchers who have spent decades climbing trees, banding eaglets and monitoring nests say something unusual is happening this year.

State agencies said the pipeline tunnel construction would affect Native American burial sites, wetlands and threatened and endangered species but concluded the benefits of the tunnel outweigh the damages. The project remains tied up in court.

The remnants of wildfires in Canada and Minnesota drifted over the Great Lakes State on Wednesday. An air quality alert was issued by the National Weather Service for all of Michigan.

According to the alert, shifting winds are set to bring smoke from wildfires in Canada and Minnesota into the Great Lakes region.

No new data center development proposals will be considered by the Lansing City Council until Jan. 25, 2027.