LAKE MICHIGAN

The winners from the most recent Scenic Michigan Photo Contest have been announced, and they’re showing off the coast-to-coast beauty that is the Mitten State. The contest was run by Scenic Michigan, an Ann-Arbor based affiliate of the national nonprofit Scenic America. “We want to thank everyone who submits photos for our contest each year,” said Jake Parcell, executive director of Scenic Michigan. Photo provided by Patrick Russell and Scenic Michigan. To see all Scenic Michigan contest winners and descriptions of the work, see the website here.

Wind chills Friday morning may feel like 15 to 20 below zero according to an advisory in effect until 10 a.m. for portions of central, north central and northeast Illinois, said National Weather Service officials.

A national environmental conservancy has recorded high chloride readings across the Midwest, with the highest concentrations in Michigan.

of Agriculture confirmed a sample collected by Northwest Michigan Invasive Species Network (ISN) staff who found the pest while conducting a survey. The country club is located north of Point Betsie between Crystal Lake and Lake Michigan. The surveys are part of a larger, systematic effort along the Lake Michigan shoreline to find infestations before they become unmanageable. Hemlock woolly adelgid is a small insect that uses long, siphoning mouthparts to extract sap from hemlock trees. In the past six years, infestations have been confirmed in five counties along Lake Michigan: Allegan, Ottawa, Muskegon, Oceana and Mason.

A human jawbone was found in Lake Michigan 15 years ago and police still do not know who it belongs to.

KALAMAZOO, MI — A Kalamazoo modern dance company, Wellspring/Cori Terry & Dancers, will again host the annual Midwest Regional Alternative Dance Festival, better known as RAD Fest. RAD Fest will present five different dance concerts, a screendance presentation, a movement installation and a special showing. “I am very excited to get back to RAD Fest’s post-COVID, in-person format,” said Rachel Miller, RAD Fest curator. Master classes and workshops include contemporary, modern, physical theater and West African classes taught by RAD Fest artists and other prestigious dance educators. Tickets for the Midwest RAD Fest performances will go on sale and master class registration will open on Wednesday, Feb. 1.

“Fieldwork” is about how Iliana Regan came to foraging, and how she and her wife, Anna, transformed a remote camp in Michigan into the Milkweed Inn.

The body was found near Museum Campus, according to police.

MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI – Plans for a paved path between Lake Harbor Park and P.J. Hoffmaster State Park, both of them on Lake Michigan in southern Muskegon County, are moving forward. The 8-foot-wide paved Lake Harbor Trail will extend nearly 3 miles along Lake Harbor Road in Norton Shores. Related: $2M trail along Lake Harbor Road connecting Lake Michigan parks moves forwardIt’s hoped the trail will be completed a year after construction begins, but there are a lot of variables, Murphy told MLive. Preliminary designs show the Lake Harbor Trail on the west side of Lake Harbor Road, running between Channel Road just south of Lake Harbor Park and Henry Street, which is just south of Hoffmaster’s day use area.

Happy 186th birthday, Michigan! You look great. Honestly, you don’t look a day over 125. What’s your secret? Pilates? Whatever it is, keep it up. It’s working.

The state will spend $74.5 million to bolster the dwindling sandy shoreline at Illinois Beach State Park near Zion.

Today is going to feel like we turned the corner back to Winter. Anticipate some rain transitioning to flurries this morning with the cooling airmass in place. However, we won’t see much accumulation on the wet and relatively warm ground before flurries taper off through the afternoon hours.

If you like to eat freshwater fish, a new study published this month by advocacy scientists and Duke University graduate researchers is unwelcome news. Average PFAS levels were about 2.7 times higher in fish caught in urban versus remote water bodies. The most frequently detected compound was PFOS, a well-known variety which is no longer produced domestically because replacement PFAS chemicals have been developed. Michigan’s PFAS fish advisories are based on toxicological screening calculations, or values, which DHHS says were last updated about 10 years ago. Kashian said additional PFAS chemicals may have been entering the system over the past decade.

But dark sky parks are much more than stargazing spaces: They’re also actively increasing protection for and education around the diminishing natural, cultural, and economic resource that is our dark sky. Lawless International Dark Sky Park: After years of effort, this spot in southwestern Lower Michigan became the state’s second International Dark Sky Park in 2020. Keweenaw Dark Sky Park: In 2022, the grounds of the historic Keweenaw Mountain Lodge in Copper Harbor became the U.P.’s first designated International Dark Sky Park. More details onlineIn processA dark sky sanctuary on Beaver Island: The Beaver Island Dark Sky Project is a community group working to have a nearly 10,000-acre parcel designated as an IDSA Dark Sky Sanctuary — an exceptional distinction awarded only to remote locations and fragile sites. Michigan Dark Sky PreservesIn addition to our international dark sky parks, Michigan has six state-designated dark sky preserves located within certain state parks and recreation areas.

NORTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN - When your lights aren’t working and you are having technical difficulties, you punch in the number of your trusty tech guide or repair person. But when it happens to a pair of remote lighthouses in northern Lake Michigan in the middle of winter, you call in the U.S. Coast Guard. A Coast Guard Aids to Navigation specialist from Sector Sault Ste Marie is hoisted onto White Shoal Lighthouse by an Air Station Traverse City crew. Technicians were hoisted to White Shoal Light in Northern Lake Michigan. The Coast Guard crew from Air Station Traverse City flies out to White Shoal Lighthouse, about 20 miles west of the Mackinac Bridge.

Illinois Department of Natural Resources officials announced a $74.5 million project to address shoreline erosion at Illinois Beach State Park, the state's only natural shoreline, on Thursday in what is believed to be the department's largest-ever capital project. Construction is slated to start this spring.

Scott Skafar, a fisherman from Valparaiso, Indiana, caught two burbots from Lake Michigan that broke Indiana’s previous state record from 1990.

In new guidance released Thursday, Jan. 12, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) said contaminant testing on Lake Huron and Lake Michigan fish warranted new restrictions on rainbow smelt, a small species sought by anglers and stream dippers. The state now advises people not to eat more than six servings of smelt from Lake Huron every year and limit consumption of Lake Michigan smelt to one serving a month. Portage Lake is part of the Keweenaw Waterway and connects to Lake Superior, where DHHS issued a one-serving-per-month advisory on smelt last year. In Michigan, testing has found concerning PFAS levels in almost all smelt tested from the Great Lakes and inland lakes in the Upper and Lower peninsulas. Related stories:Smelt across Michigan show high PFAS levelsPFAS in Lake Michigan linked to Wisconsin companyFire caused PFAS spike in Menominee water3M to cease manufacture of toxic PFASEPA to list PFAS chemicals as hazardousMichigan farmer sues after PFAS taints cattle herdBiden EPA plans key PFAS actions by 2023PFAS safety levels plunge in drinking water

Traverse City resident Rick Buckhalter filed last month for leave to appeal his case to the state’s top court. “It involves the use of city parkland and water at the Union Street Dam Park and the Traverse City city charter puts in place special protection for city-owned lands that are cemeteries or parks,” said Jay Zelenock, attorney for Buckhalter. In the case of the Great Lakes and the Boardman (Ottaway) River, the invasive species at issue is the sea lamprey. Initial plans called for the research facility in the Boardman (Ottaway) River to be completely constructed by early this year. FishPass is a fisheries research project among the binational Great Lakes Fishery Commission, City of Traverse City, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Tribe, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, and the Boardman River Dams Implementation Team.

MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI – Nearly half of $5.25 million in improvements planned at Muskegon State Park will go into improvements at the bathhouse that could include concessions. The improvements are funded with $250 million in federal relief funding that has been dedicated to improving Michigan’s state parks. Related: Hoffmaster State Park closing during the summer as $6.4M in upgrades beginThe largest chunk of money, $2.5 million, is reserved for Muskegon State Park’s bathhouse at the beach day use area, Whalen told MLive. Hoffmaster is to get $6.4 million in improvements, of which $4 million will be directed to roads. Also on MLiveWant to be a state park campground or harbor host this summer?

26-year-old Dorothy Lynn (Thyng) Ricker, of Chicago, accidentally drowned before her unclothed body was discovered on October 27, 1997, police announced.

The man was identified as John Puza Jr., of Gary, Indiana, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, MI – A Michigan man is accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy while the two were ice fishing on Spider Lake in Grand Traverse County about two weeks ago, WPBN/WGTU reports. Jacey Klumb, 19, of Suttons Bay, is charged with second-degree criminal sexual conduct related to the incident, the report said. Klumb and the child were ice fishing when the alleged assault happened, the report said. The boy then fled across the ice and went to a house for help; they called 911. READ MORE:Michigan barber missing since summer found dead, family saysOfficer, civilian injured in crash during pursuit of stolen vehicleBody found on Lake Michigan beach in 1997 identified as woman who went missing in WisconsinWoman dropped off at Wisconsin hospital says she was held captive, 4 suspects arrested

A study shows that only two of the five Great Lakes have an ecosystem that is considered “good.”

Human remains found in 1997 along Lake Michigan's shoreline in western Michigan have been identified as those of a Chicago woman last seen weeks earlier at a Wisconsin beachfront park, police said Monday. Forensic experts relying on advanced DNA analyses confirmed in December that the remains are those of Dorothy Lynn (Thyng) Ricker, Michigan State Police said. “Although DNA testing wasn’t possible when Dorothy Ricker died, investigators are grateful that it brings her family some resolution today,” police said in a news release.

A woman found dead along the shoreline of Lake Michigan 25 years ago has been identified.

MANISTEE COUNTY, MI – A body that washed up along Lake Michigan shoreline in 1997 has been identified 26 years later. Ricker was last seen at a Wisconsin beach along Lake Michigan by two officers from the St. Francis Police Department. In September 2020, detectives with the MSP Cadillac Post and the MSP Missing Persons Coordination Unit exhumed the individual for advanced DNA testing. With the assistance of the York County Sheriff’s Office in Maine, familial DNA reference samples from a possible brother were obtained. Investigators also located 1997 news articles from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel detailing the unidentified woman’s contacts just prior to her going missing.

Michigan residents are no strangers to snow since it routinely blankets the state for several months of the year. But, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, Michigan is home to two of the snowiest cities in the United States including Sault Ste. Marie in the Upper Peninsula and Muskegon, which is located along Lake Michigan. Marie has been the snowiest city in the U.S. over the last 30 years, according to the data compiled by the 230-year-old publication. Other cities on the list include Syracuse, Juneau, Duluth, Erie (Pennsylvania), Burlington (Vermont), Casper (Wyoming), Portland (Maine) and Worcester (Massachusetts).

“I’ve been fishing all my life, and it never dawned on me that I would catch a state record,” the fisherman said.

MARINETTE, WI — University of Wisconsin researchers say they’ve linked a plume of toxic PFAS chemicals entering Lake Michigan to a firefighting foam manufacturer. Tyco’s facilities in Marinette and Peshtigo have previously been identified as PFAS sources in groundwater and local private drinking water wells. The PFAS fingerprint in Green Bay is nearly identical to PFAS associated with Tyco and includes PFAS known to be active ingredients in firefighting foams, researchers said. Tyco is one of nearly 20 companies the Wisconsin attorney general sued in July alleging environmental contamination caused by PFAS chemicals. In Wisconsin, PFAS spiked in drinking water during an enormous October fire which destroyed a warehouse in which Tyco firefighting foam was stored.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Two people were shot early Tuesday, Jan. 3, while leaving a private birthday party at a business on Stocking Avenue NW. Police said that the relationship between the victims and shooter or shooters was unclear but said the shooting is not believed to be random. The shootings happened just after midnight in the 500 block of Stocking as partygoers left the birthday party. One of the men was at the scene when police arrived. Read more:New far-right board hires John Gibbs to lead Ottawa County government‘GOAT’ tops Michigan school’s 2023 list of words and phrases to banishCoast Guard responds after towing vessel ‘Michigan’ partially sinks near Lake Michigan port

Coast Guard pollution responders, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Milwaukee Harbor Patrol, and representatives from U.S. Venture, which owns the Michigan, all responded to the scene. The Michigan has a maximum potential of 40,000 gallons of oil and fuel onboard, but officials confirmed the vessel was not actively polluting. About 100 feet of hard boom with absorbent material was deployed as a preventative measure, officials said. “At this point in time, the Coast Guard’s focus is the marine environmental protection and the potential waterway impacts,” said Capt. U.S. Venture has contracted a marine salvage organization to respond to the sunken vessel.

SOUTH HAVEN, MI – Rescuers warned that ice shelves forming on Lake Michigan shores pose a danger to those who venture out over the water. He photographed an adult and two children on the ice along the South Haven shore and shared it on the SHAES’ Facebook page. An ice shelf formed in Lake Michigan in South Haven. It’s pretty unforgiving.”Last February, a 22-year-old man drowned in Lake Michigan at Indiana Dune National Park in Portage, Indiana, after he and four friends walked about 10 feet onto an ice shelf. “The golden rule is, no ice is safe ice,” Benjamin said.

ST. JOSEPH, MI - Thanks to last week’s blizzard, parts of Lake Michigan’s coastline have been encased in winter beauty. Ice and snow covered the beach, the surfaces and railings of the piers and all facets of the lighthouses near Tiscornia Park and Silver Beach County Park on Tuesday, Dec. 27, in St. Joseph. There were many people visiting and taking photos of the frozen wonderland on Tuesday that had formed around the lighthouses. The piers reach out into Lake Michigan right where the St. Joseph River connects with the lake. 15 St. Joseph Lighthouse becomes frozen wonderlandMore from up the shore: Lake Michigan lighthouses, beach furniture encased with ice by blizzard

MUSKEGON, MI – The pre-Christmas blizzard that dumped more than 2 feet of snow in the Grand Rapids area also turned some Lake Michigan shoreline structures into figurative ice sculptures. High winds, waves, spray and freezing temps during the blizzard encased shoreline buildings, such as lighthouses, and beach furniture with thick ice, as captured by West Michigan residents. The lighthouses and piers in Muskegon and Grand Haven, along with others up and down Lake Michigan, were covered in ice after being battered by large waves.

A Wisconsin shop along Lake Michigan is frozen solid after a massive storm that has walloped much of the United States. (Dec. 27) (Production: Carrie Antlfinger)

ST. JOSEPH, MI - The Christmas week blizzard is finished and we’re looking at a big warm-up this week. You could bundle up and go out to see the frozen winter wonderland for yourself, or you could leave it our MLive photographers. Photographer Gracie Smith took a trip to Silver Beach County Park and Tiscornia Park in St. Joseph today. Take a look at her gallery above to see what the blizzard made of one Lake Michigan lighthouse. READ MORE:A remote part of Michigan is home to one of the country’s top-rated ski resortsHow our Christmas Week Blizzard compared to Blizzard of ‘78BIG weather flip-flop coming; Beach party theme for New Year’s Eve Party?

Personnel from multiple departments worked together to free a goose from frozen sand along Lake Michigan. Conservation officers from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources were called to the lakeshore after the Canada goose was found frozen in wet sand at Indiana Dunes State Park, which is located within a 15,349-acre national park of the same name with miles of Lake Michigan shoreline. Several bystanders had already attempted to free the goose when the COs arrived but were unsuccessful. To prevent further risk to the public and to help the animal, Porter Volunteer Firefighters were called to the scene near the icy Great Lake. Warmer water was applied to the area around the goose, which was safely removed from the frozen beach.

LANSING – A large swath of Northwoods near the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula is another step closer to being protected forever from future development and preserved as a critical carbon sink deep into Michigan’s Upper Peninsula wilderness. The largest land purchase recommendation from the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund board for 2023 was $5 million to buy land for the state’s public trust in the Keweenaw Peninsula. The board’s recommendations on Dec. 14 totaled $15 million for land acquisition grants and $8.3 million for project development grants next year. The trust fund grant recommendations will go before the Michigan Legislature for approval. In Keweenaw County, Don Piche said the recommended state funding is good news for his community, where he serves as county board chairman.

The Lake Michigan lake-effect snow machine is still cranking, and one band, in particular, has persisted between M-59 and I-69 with some accumulation during the day today.

The rest of Lower Michigan will have wind gusts up to 35 mph, down from 45 mph yesterday. When you combine the cold temperatures and the strong wind, we get dangerously cold wind chills. The rest of us will have wind chills a few degrees either side of zero. To sum up today for most of us: Uncomfortably very cold wind, bitter wind chills and needle-like snowflakes. It’s still not a day to drive all over the state unless it’s very necessary outside the blizzard warning area and only in an emergency in the blizzard warning area.

Following the arrival of a major winter storm, road conditions are extremely dicey Friday, Dec. 23. Michigan Department of Transportation road cameras show poor travel conditions, especially in West Michigan along the Lake Michigan shoreline, according to the National Weather Service in Grand Rapids. To check road conditions prior to hitting the road, view the MDOT cameras at mdotjboss.state.mi.us/MiDrive/cameras. In Kent County, there are 65 MDOT cameras, viewable on the MDOT website by selecting the “Kent County” filter. The other Van Buren County cameras are at I-94 near County Road 687 and I-94 at South Kalamazoo Street.

We’ve been hearing the warnings for days: Blizzard conditions smacking parts of Michigan today and Saturday will make driving in some areas nearly impossible - and very dangerous. Little to no visibility for drivers, blowing snow, drifting snow and rapidly falling temperatures. They also rounded up a list of the Michigan highways they predict will be in the worst shape for driving in the next couple days. In the areas near Lake Michigan and Lake Superior, lake effect snow is forecast to continue through Sunday. Dangerous travel conditions will last into Saturday, the NWS said.

Storm-force wind warnings covering Lake Michigan, Lake Huron and Lake Superior already have been issued by the National Weather Service. These Storm Warning-strength winds, which are higher than Gale Force winds - are to whip across the Great Lakes on Friday and into Saturday. The NWS meteorologists in Marquette expect waves up to 25 feet and some possibly higher on Lake Superior. As of Thursday afternoon, freighter traffic was still steady in Lake Superior and Lake Huron. Near Lake Superior & Lake Michigan: Occasional gusts of 50-60 mph Friday, lower on Saturday.

A Chicago woman who underwent a double amputation after she was struck by a boat in the “Playpen” over the summer on Wednesday filed a lawsuit accusing the boating company and the vessel operator of negligence.

Most of Michigan is under a blizzard warning or winter storm warning ahead of Christmas 2022. See how much snow is predicted across the state.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - As Michigan preps for the major winter storm packing blizzard conditions and high winds that’s expected to start rolling into our area later today, the National Weather Service is alerting residents that a storm like this is actually rare for our region. It will be the first large-scale blizzard to hit our region since the Groundhog’s Day Blizzard of 2011. “This is a rare storm for our area,” NWS officials said Wednesday in a storm prep webinar. “This will be a very challenging time, especially heading into holiday travel,” NWS staff said. SW Michigan: Snow midday Thursday into Saturday.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Emergency officials are warning of possible whiteout conditions and prolonged power outages during the pre-Christmas blizzard expected to start late Thursday afternoon. Related: Blizzard Warning officially issued for 13 Michigan counties, more counties to comeThe snow is expected to start mid-afternoon Thursday, with strong winds starting Friday morning. “Travel will be very difficult to impossible,” the NWS blizzard warning states. “Widespread blowing snow will significantly reduce visibility. “It’s the blowing snow.

The body of the missing Northwestern University student was found Tuesday evening in Lake Michigan. He had gone missing Sunday morning after leaving a party.

Here is the weather forecast for Metro Detroit.

MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI – More than 160 acres of future park property that includes 1,460 feet of Lake Michigan frontage are officially in public hands. Muskegon County closed on the former Nugent Sand property on Dec. 13, finalizing the acquisition of property for its Dune Harbor Park. The parcel that includes an inland lake created through sand mining operations will become the northern section of Dune Harbor Park. It will be opened for public use no later than March 13, 2023, said Muskegon County Community Development Director Robert Lukens. Muskegon County has finalized the purchase of the second phase of Dune Harbor Park in Norton Shores.

Winter weather advisories in purpleThe winter weather advisory area is for expected snow amounts of 3 to 6 inches. The winter weather advisory doesn’t cover Cadillac, Traverse City, Kalkaska, Charlevoix and Petoskey. It would be a good depiction of the weather situation if these cities were also in the winter weather advisory. This is why I think we will see an expansion of the winter weather advisory area for the weekend. The winter weather advisory is also slated to end at 7 a.m. Saturday from Ludington northward.

MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI – The good news is that P.J. Hoffmaster State Park on Lake Michigan near Muskegon is getting $6.4 million in much-needed upgrades, including new roads. The bad news is that the work will require extended closures of the day use area, including the beach, and campground next summer.

NORTHPORT, MI – There’s a barge with a crane sitting atop the vessel currently resting on Great Lakes bottomlands in Grand Traverse Bay for the second time in as many years. The barge owned by Balcom Marine Contractors of Traverse City has for 18 months been anchored offshore from luxury homes along the Lake Michigan shoreline near Northport. That was the second time the barge came to rest on the bottom of Grand Traverse Bay. It was re-floated in May 2021 and moved to a boat ramp owned by the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Tribe in Peshawbestown. Balcom’s company also owns a 33-foot towboat called the Rawhide, which sank in Grand Traverse Bay in September 2019.

MACKINAC ISLAND, MI - A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew from Air Station Traverse City went north on a training flight this week and caught some incredibly iconic Michigan views from the air. The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw was working in Lake Michigan when their colleagues did a fly-over. Here’s what the Coast Guard said about the training flight via a message on its social media page. Photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard. Love our U.S. Coast Guard crews?

A part of Lower Michigan is protected from the arctic cold that hits Wisconsin and westward. Lake Michigan has relatively warm water in December when compared to some of the cold air temperatures. Lake Michigan can warm that arctic air as much as 20 degrees from the bitter cold temperatures in Wisconsin. I’d say 15 degrees is a common amount of warming from Lake Michigan for western Lower Michigan. Lower Michigan is often the warmest spot in December thanks to wind blowing over the relatively warm Lake Michigan.

PENINSULA TOWNSHIP, MI –The Old Mission Peninsula is known for its sweeping views of Lake Michigan and rolling hills of cherry trees, grape vines and apple orchards. But some Peninsula Township farmers are worried a proposed ordinance could devalue their properties and alter the scenic farmland. “After several fits and starts, the township is poised to adopt an unnecessary, over restrictive processing ordinance. Eleven wineries sued the Peninsula Township two years ago over zoning regulations that barred them from hosting weddings or events with loud music. “It’s not an issue of the new ordinance impacting either ongoing or new operations for any of the farms in Peninsula Township.

A social district is set to open in South Haven in the fall of next year.

The federal government has turned down a request for financial aid to restart a nuclear power plant in southwestern Michigan.

Sailors who lost their lives in shipwrecks on the Great Lakes and Michigan waterways will be remembered at a historic church in downtown Detroit.

The public will keep the right to use Indiana’s Lake Michigan shoreline for recreation as the U.S. Supreme Court won’t consider arguments from nearby property owners who claimed they also owned the beach.

Michigan's long history of mankind dates back to 11,000 B.C. and is most associated with the hard working innovative population that brought the world assembly line manufacturing, ginger ale, Motown and punk rock, breakfast cereal, and mass-produced penicillin and with it, modern medicine.

Are you a fan of the fall colors? Jill Halpin, founder of MyMichiganBeach.com, joined Michelle Oliver on “Live In The D” to share the best places in Michigan to embrace the fall scenery.

A canoeing competition held on Lake Michigan turned deadly this weekend when a racer died after falling off his boat multiple times.

A judge has declined to dismiss the case against a western Michigan restaurant owner who was jailed and fined $15,000 for violating state orders that banned indoor dining during the pandemic.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said it is seeing good indicators that a modest stocking increase of Chinook salmon populations is needed in Lake Michigan.

Investigators were working to identify the person whose body was pulled from Lake Michigan after being spotted about 12 miles from shore.

We asked our WDIV Insiders to settle a debate and choose between two of the most common nicknames for the people of Michigan: “Michiganders” and “Michiganians.”

There is a new birding trail in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that covers more than 400 miles and includes 40 birding stops.

Kory Ernster and Emily MacDonald died in Lake Michigan August 8 when they were swimming in South Haven.

Kory Ernster and Emily MacDonald died in Lake Michigan August 8 when they were swimming in South Haven.

The National Weather Service of Grand Rapids state that dangerous waves and currents are expected Sunday.

There's no dispute about some of the evidence in the trial of two men accused of wanting to kidnap Michigan’s governor.

A federal judge Thursday kept jurisdiction over a lawsuit seeking to close an oil pipeline crossing a section of the Great Lakes, rejecting Michigan’s effort to shift the case to state court.

The state of Michigan has been awarded a $25 million grant to help rebuild infrastructure around Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood, soon to be home to the Detroit Mobility and Innovation Corridor (DMIC).

Two people who drowned in Lake Michigan on Monday in South Haven have been identified as young adults from the Metro Detroit area.

Beaver Island is one of only a handful of places to have had a self-proclaimed monarchy.

It’s already August and for many families that means summer is winding down as we stare down the start of school in just four to five weeks. That may have you thinking about a last-minute vacation, but where should you go? There are plenty of places to explore in Michigan that you may have never been to. We spoke to Jill Halpin, the Founder of the My Michigan Beach website, to get her advice on where to go in Michigan.

The Michigan football program embarked on a jam-packed tour of Michigan this summer.

It took nearly 28 hours and more than 44 miles, but a Canadian man is now one step away from completing his quest to cross all five Great Lakes via paddleboard.

Mike Shoreman will depart from Union Pier, Michigan on Tuesday night, with plans to finish along Chicago’s North Avenue Beach at around noon Wednesday.

There are three beaches along Lake Saint Clair that are closed after testing for high bacteria levels this week.

Here is the weather forecast for Metro Detroit.

Milwaukee moved another step closer to hosting the 2024 Republican National Convention when a site selection committee unanimously recommended the event be held there rather than Nashville.

Authorities are searching for a man who disappeared in Lake Michigan while trying to save a child, likely the fourth drowning on the same day in western Michigan.

One girl died and another was released after treatment at a hospital after they were pulled from Lake Michigan after struggling in the water Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.

Here is the weather forecast for Metro Detroit.

A family of six from Metro Detroit was killed in their summer home 54 years ago, and many questions remain unanswered to this day.

An avid paddleboarder, Mike Shoreman was told he could never paddleboard again. But he didn’t pay attention to that edict and now is trying to make history.

Asian Carp is getting a new name in the state of Illinois. On Wednesday the Illinois DNR held a virtual event with Chopped champion Brian Jupiter of Frontier and Ina Mae Tavern.

History is repeating itself in Lake Michigan: The alewife fish is washing up on the shores in a widespread “die-off” event that used to happen frequently in the past.

The swimming area at Grand Haven State Park in western Michigan has been closed following several near drownings.

The swimming area at Grand Haven State Park in western Michigan has been closed following several near drownings.

Michigan lighthouses have been shining a light on the Great Lakes for centuries. With more than 3,200 miles of shoreline, lighthouses greatly impact the water community.

An angler from Hobart, Indiana caught a new state-record flathead catfish while fishing in Berrien County, Michigan.

Local 4 is taking a trip to Mackinac Island this Tuesday morning.

A number of beaches along Michigan’s western coast have been placed under a “high” risk warning this Memorial Day due to dangerous water conditions.

If you want to fish in Michigan, but aren’t quite sure where to go, the Department of Natural Resources has your back.

Even the Great Lakes are prone to dangerous currents that can threaten experienced swimmers.

A coal-powered passenger steamship on Lake Michigan that’s the last of its kind in the U.S. will stop using coal to fuel its historic engines once its operators settle on an alternate power source.