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6 days ago | 
michiganpublic.org | Brett Dahlberg
The U.S. military struck three sites in Iran early Sunday, directly joining Israel ’s war aimed at decapitating the country’s nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe amid Tehran’s threat of reprisals that could spark a wider regional conflict.
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1 month ago | 
michiganpublic.org | Brett Dahlberg
The U.S. Department of Energy issued an order Friday demanding that a coal power plant operated by Consumers Energy in West Michigan stay online, despite that after years of planning it was set to shut down at the end of the month. The J.H. Campbell plant in Ottawa County was scheduled to end operations on May 31 – part of Consumers Energy’s plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and move toward natural gas and renewable energy sources.
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1 month ago | 
michiganpublic.org | Brett Dahlberg
President Donald Trump signed a memo Friday directing the federal government to "achieve maximum speed and efficiency" on a project designed to block the spread of an invasive fish into the Great Lakes. The plan is to build a series of barriers to keep invasive carp from moving from the Mississippi River system to the Great Lakes through a lock-and-dam complex that connects the two water bodies. Trump directed a set of federal agencies to prioritize work on the barrier system.
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2 months ago | 
michiganpublic.org | Rachel Mintz |Brett Dahlberg
The Michigan Attorney General's office said Thursday that a series of law enforcement actions the day before were part of a "yearlong investigation into coordinated criminal acts of vandalism and property damage occurring in multiple counties in southeastern Michigan." The Tahrir Coalition, an association of pro-Palestinian groups at the University of Michigan, had characterized the actions of police as "raids," saying they appeared to target its members who had been part of demonstrations on...
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2 months ago | 
michiganpublic.org | Brett Dahlberg
Health authorities in Kent County said Tuesday that they've confirmed the county's first case of measles in more than a decade. This is Michigan's second known case of 2025, after a case in Oakland County in March. The Kent County Health Department said in a news release that the new case is an adult who recently traveled abroad before returning to the U.S. and traveling between Michigan and New Jersey.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
michiganpublic.org | Brett Dahlberg
President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that he plans to nominate Michigan Republican Party Chairman Pete Hoekstra to be the U.S. ambassador to Canada. In a statement, Trump said Hoekstra "was a great help" to his presidential campaign in Michigan. Trump and his running mate JD Vance won the state by about 80,000 votes in this month's election. Trump endorsed Hoekstra to lead the Michigan GOP amid a messy leadership battle within the party earlier this year.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
michiganpublic.org | Steve Carmody |Brett Dahlberg
“Well, four days,” Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, told several hundred supporters in Flint Friday. “This next 100 or so hours and the work we do will shape not just the next four years, but the next generation.”The urgency of getting out the vote was the main theme of both Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns in Michigan Friday.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
michiganpublic.org | Brett Dahlberg
Longtime Michigan Congressman Bob Carr, who represented the state in the U.S. House of Representatives for 18 years, died Tuesday at 81 years old. First elected to Congress in 1974, Carr, a Democrat, held his seat until 1980 when he lost a reelection bid. He regained the seat two years later and held it until 1995. His constituency changed with redistricting, but his seat typically represented a section of mid-Michigan. Carr gained a reputation as a critic of the Vietnam War.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
michiganpublic.org | Brett Dahlberg
Close to 350,000 utility customers in Michigan's Lower Peninsula were without power Tuesday evening after a storm system swept across the state starting in the early afternoon. Consumers Energy reported about 153,000 customers hit by the outages, and DTE Energy reported about 197,000. "We know how challenging it is to be without power," DTE Energy said in a message on its Outage Map website.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
michiganpublic.org | Brett Dahlberg
Three people have been bound over to stand trial on felony charges alleging they defrauded the campaigns of several candidates for Michigan governor in the 2022 election cycle. Shawn Wilmoth, Jamie Wilmoth-Goodin, and Willie Reed were charged in June 2023. On Thursday, after a preliminary examination in the state's 37th District Court in Warren, a judge found there is sufficient evidence for the three to face trial on the charges.
