Rebecca Williams

Jun 10, 2024 | bridgemi.com | Lester Graham |Michigan Public |Rebecca Williams

This story is part of a Great Lakes News Collaborative series examining the links between the region’s changing climate, its abundant water and its residents’ health. The collaborative’s five newsrooms — Bridge Michigan, Circle of Blue, Great Lakes Now and Michigan Radio and The Narwhal — are funded by the Charles Stewart Mott FoundatiA couple of Michigan communities have considered a technology that’s just beginning to be used in the U.S.Floating solar panels.

May 28, 2024 | bridgemi.com | Lester Graham |Michigan Public |Rebecca Williams

May 28, 2024 Great Lakes, Great Lakes News Collaborative, Rural MichiganAmanda Rodewald is taking us down a path in Sapsucker Woods. It’s a chilly, windy early spring day in Ithaca, New York. In fact, there are a few snowflakes falling along the wooded path. Rodewald is the Senior Director of the Center for Avian Population Studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. “The trends are worrisome.

Feb 23, 2024 | michiganpublic.org | Rebecca Williams

Michigan has its first confirmed measles case since 2019, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. The department said the case is an Oakland County child, and is associated with international travel. Officials said they do not think anyone outside the child’s household was exposed. Measles is highly contagious, but it is preventable with vaccines. The state health department recommends unvaccinated people in Michigan ages 1 and older get the vaccine.

Feb 22, 2024 | foxsports.com.au | Rebecca Williams

HOMESPORTMOTORSPORTSUPERCARSKostecki's future remains a mystery | 01:04Rebecca Williams from Code SportsFebruary 23rd, 2024 12:33 pmErebus Motorsport boss Barry Ryan has broken down as he defended his character amid the ongoing Brodie Kostecki saga, saying he is not a “bully” as he and team owner Betty Klimenko stressed it was “not up to us” if the reigning champion raced for the team this year.

Dec 24, 2023 | wvpublic.org | Rebecca Williams

This story originally aired in the Dec. 24, 2023 episode of Inside Appalachia. On a cold December night in Asheville, North Carolina, a group of about 20 people gather on a stranger’s front porch. Some of them have come together for the past decade to celebrate the holidays, build community, and, most important, wassail. One of the wassailers knocks on the door. A woman opens it. “We’re wassailers and we would like to sing you songs,” said the leader of the wassailing group.