Dustin Dwyer

Immigrants locked up in Michigan sued the federal government to try and go free. The lawsuits worked for hundreds of people, but a new analysis shows that’s changing.

Dustin Dwyer, Michelle Jokisch Polo, Adam Yahya Rayes | Michigan Public The following article was originally published by Michigan Public

Michigan Public tracked the results of cases where judges granted petitions challenging the Trump administration's "mandatory detention” policy.

More than 200 people marched in Grand Rapids on International Workers' Day, calling for an end to deportations. A separate march was planned for Detroit.

Hundreds of people gathered in downtown Grand Rapids on Tuesday for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People's Day.

The wind is tearing up the beach at Grand Haven State Park in early November, and Jack Bayse stands in his black wetsuit, holding his surfboard, his hair still wet from being in the 40 degree water.

Courtesy Dale Dalman Entrance to the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, Michigan.

In early April 2026, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources said the water levels at the Cheboygan Dam were 12 inches from reaching the top. The DNR said it had five pumps diverting water from flowing through the dam and into the spillway in an effort to reduce the water levels near the dam.

Consumers Energy originally planned to shut the West Michigan power plant down starting last year. But the Department of Energy has issued a series of orders forcing the plant to stay open.

It's a unique part of Lake Superior's history, a history that stretches back more than one billion years.