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Right now, most glass that's put into recycling bins in our region gets used for building roads in landfills. But one place that's found a way to recycle the material hopes to lead the way for others.

Most plastic ends up in the landfill, some joins local and national supply chains to be made into new products, and the trickiest ones power a northern Michigan factory.

In separate cases heard in back-to-back hearings by the Supreme Court, the plaintiffs argued the state has never fully analyzed the risks posed by a more than 70-year-old section of pipeline located in the Straits of Mackinac.

Advocates in northern Michigan want to see a delayed state report on Michigan’s mental health system, as the region faces provider shortages and lack of inpatient beds for children.

FEMA had denied further assistance with recovery from historic ice storms last spring. An agreement by Trump to extend aid would appear to be a reversal of that decision.

The National Weather Service issued a series of tornado warnings as storms moved across southwest Michigan Friday. Video from Three Rivers shows debris spiraling through a strip mall

The effort to repeal zoning rules was spearheaded by Marv Rubingh, a township board member who is trying to gain approval for a gravel mine on his property.

As the population in the privately-run North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin grew in September 2025, habeas corpus petitions started to show up in Michigan's federal District Courts. Judges granted most of the hundreds of petitions they've ruled on.

The $289,100 donation from a California couple, including Elliott Broidy, highlights the growing influence of megadonors in Michigan politics.

The project in the Ottawa National Forest in the western Upper Peninsula would involve logging, gravel mine expansion and forest restoration efforts.