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Grape growers and experts in northern Michigan say “smoke taint” from this month’s hazy skies isn’t an immediate threat, but is likely a new impact of volatile weather that the industry might need to adapt to.

The state Bureau of Elections has suspended Victoria Bishop's ability to see or modify the qualified voter file, or QVF. State officials wrote that she was told not to alter the file, but did anyway.

IPR climate solutions reporter Vivian La on possible funding cuts to a key NOAA program monitoring the Great Lakes. And yes, there are a lot of bugs this spring.

“Nobody gets into farming for sane reasons, other than the sanity of knowing where your food comes from and just general health,” said one student at the Great Lakes Incubator Farm, which teaches people how to work in agriculture.

An incubator farm aims to bolster Michigan's agricultural future. Also, a new investigation into the Antrim County Clerk's office.

Grape growers are planting hybrid grapes that can withstand colder temperatures, irrigating their vines rather than relying on natural rainfall and turning to new strategies to ensure healthy soil.

Record-breaking flooding in April was a reminder for lawmakers, dam safety advocates and engineers of the vulnerabilities that the state's 2,500 dams face as extreme weather worsens.

Traverse City's Civil Air Patrol actually keeps its plane in Cadillac. They're looking to change that. Plus, how farmers are coping with disasters brought by extreme weather and climate change.

Some utilities are taking that step as a response to 2025's devastating ice storm, which knocked out power to northern Michigan for weeks in some places. But it's costly.

It's been a year since the devastating ice storm. Poles and wires have since been replaced, but some residents wonder whether it makes more sense to bury them out of the reach of increasingly damaging snow, wind and ice.