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A federal appellate court reaffirmed Friday that a lawsuit to shut down a Great Lakes pipeline belongs in Michigan’s state courts.

One factor in the general election is how the candidates approach climate and energy issues.

Michigan’s 1st Congressional District has gone to Republicans since 2010. This year, there are two democrats vying for the nomination to challenge incumbent Rep. Jack Bergman in the fall.

The Michigan Climate Action Network says it will join challenges to a permit approved last December by the state public service commission.

The department also stressed the importance of a 1977 pipeline treaty between the U.S. and Canada, but didn't say what the court should do about it.

Michigan’s authority to demand the shutdown of an oil and natural gas liquids pipeline that runs through the Straits of Mackinac is central to arguments heard Thursday before the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.

This week: An impasse over the future of the air show at the National Cherry Festival. And Elk Rapids high school students make the prom a little more climate friendly.

The film is written and directed by Mary Mazzio, narrated by Indigenous actitivist and model Quanna Chasinghorse and actor Edward Norton. It's produced by former Detroit Piston Grant Hill.

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.