Upper Peninsula

Opponents are going to court in hopes of blocking a controversial $50 million grant Michigan awarded in August to fund construction of a Canadian company’s copper mine in the western Upper Peninsula.

Many of Michigan’s nearly 1,500 townships and villages are run by part-time retirees in their 80s who are begging for help. The system is frayed and, without reform, communities could falter. Lansing isn’t coming to rescue.

The comments were made amid a legal battle between Lake Superior Academy, the school next to the mine in Dafter Township, and the mine's operators.

The study was commissioned by the Mackinac Bridge Authority after the 2024 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland.

With little rain, warm temps and gusts of wind, one spark can cause a massive wildfire.

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.

The National Weather Service office in Gaylord told WCMU they don't expect the incoming system to be as severe as the ice storm and blizzard that struck the region a few weeks ago.

The National Weather Service reports that some areas of the Upper Peninsula received up 4 feet of snow.

State and local officials across the Upper Peninsula are urging people to stay home and not travel unless necessary as a major winter storm continues to wreck havoc on the region, causing white-out conditions and heavy snow.

The National Weather Service says snow totals up to 4 feet are possible in some areas in the Upper Peninsula. Meanwhile, ice precipitation is possible for the northern Lower Peninsula.