Bay Mills Indian Community

Last week, the federal government approved a permit for the proposed tunnel project. And the decision came even as regulators acknowledged the project would harm areas that Michigan tribes say are important for their ways of life. IPR climate solutions reporter Vivian La tells us more.

The episode highlighting Ojibwe fisherman Big Abe LeBlanc was recognized with the honor. It's the second National Murrow Award won by the Points North team since 2024.

Justices vacated a permit for the pipeline, while also issuing a consequential ruling for state environmental reviews on several fronts — including the state’s public trust doctrine. “It is literally breathing life into the law,” said one legal expert.

November 10, 1975: The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in a massive storm on Lake Superior. But just miles away, a few fishermen are struggling in the same storm — fighting for survival.

The tribes already had concerns about the process, but news that the Army Corps will likely fast-track the federal permit for the pipeline tunnel was “the final straw,” said Whitney Gravelle, president of the 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.