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Batten down the hatches, northern Michigan, the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary’s International Film Festival is here.

The historic restart of a nuclear power plant is planned for later this year on the shores of Lake Michigan, and a northern Michigan energy cooperative is playing a major role.

Every Monday on Morning Edition, an IPR journalist brings you up to speed on what’s going on, from stories made here in our newsroom to interesting and fun things we're seeing out in the community.

On a regular basis, I’d find an LL Bean package on my front porch with a sweater in it for me from Sara. “It’s not Christmas or Easter or Mother’s Day. Why now?” And she would always reply, “Why not now?”

This week on the Up North Lowdown ... a walk through the garden. Yes, it is the dead of winter, but we are going to hear a little history of the Botanic Garden and a little more about its past and future at the Historic Barns Park. We will also dive into the question of Michigan’s state bird. Is the robin cutting it for us anymore? Your thoughts … in the latest episode of the Up North Lowdown, from Interlochen Public Radio. Listen at iprnews.org or wherever you get your podcasts.Stories featured this episode:- IPR's 'State Bird CAWcus'- A few moments in Traverse City's Botanic Garden, despite the snow

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer will deliver her seventh State of the State address to a Republican-controlled House and a Democratic-controlled Senate on February 26.

After more than a century, tribes will reintroduce the fish to three northern Michigan rivers later this year.

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.

A U.S. subsidiary of the Swedish defense company announced the project last year which has stirred debate between residents and officials with some calling for additional review.

One scientist thinks lake whitefish could disappear from certain parts of the Great Lakes within the next five years.