Bay Mills Indian Community

One calm September day, Big Abe LeBlanc set his fishing net in Lake Superior. Then he called law enforcement and turned himself in. What happened next changed fishing in the Great Lakes forever.

The partnership between Northwestern Michigan College and Bay Mills Community College is only a year old but was praised by the MDA for targeting non-traditional students.

This week: Michigan tribes say a federal lawsuit out of Wisconsin could affect their sovereignty, summer roadwork already getting started in Traverse City, and Kate Botello takes us to the spelling bee.

Tribes across the Great Lakes are asking the federal government to weigh in on a case in the Bad River Band Reservation.

Tribal fisheries biologists are leading the way on a project that will submerge cameras to get a better idea of how fish populations are interacting and changing.

At the beginning of December, the Michigan Public Service Commission granted Enbridge a permit for the $500-million project.

Opponents of the tunnel called the decision “disastrous."

Tribal Sovereign Nations continue to push for the pipeline’s decommissioning. Dozens of them — including in northern Michigan — blasted Canada for its continued support of the project in a report to the U.N. last month.

The Department of Justice announced more than $246 million in grants nation-wide on Sept. 21. At Bay Mills, $2 million will be used to enhance mainstay programs that help victims heal after traumatic events.

Nearly two weeks ago, vandals tore the center apart, throwing food on the floor, destroying medicines and artifacts, and leaving graffiti on the walls.