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By Clara Lincolnhol

Michigan is pouring $77 million into clean-up of contaminated abandoned real estate such as former factories. The director of the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy says the goal is to make the cleaned-up sites safe for housing, commercial developments and other uses.

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Nearly 30 agencies from Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio gathered in St. Ignace, Michigan, this week for a large-scale emergency response training simulating a midair plane crash over Lake Huron near […]

By Emilio Perez Ibarguen 
Lakefront property in Wexford County, 40-plus acres of forested land in the Upper Peninsula and a tiny island sitting in the middle of Lake Ponemah are up for grabs this year. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is auctioning off those and over 100 other “surplus properties” that officials say are better off in private hands, with the proceeds helping the state acquire more useful land.

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Cases in Benzie County, the Upper Peninsula and elsewhere demonstrate that small communities are not immune from big theft, and that the betrayal is deeply felt.

Missing and Murdered Unit with the Bureau of Indian Affairs was established in 2021 to investigate cases of missing and murdered Indigenous People. A special agent located in Mount Pleasant continues work on a cold case from 2007.

A cloud of uncertainty hangs over Michigan’s local public health departments as they prepare their fiscal year 2026 budgets.

A collection of festivals and celebrations across towns in northern Michigan this summer.

Victoria Lewicki had no gun to her head when she used fraudulent documents in trying to buy a $100,000 truck from a Sarnia dealer last year, her lawyer told the judge