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Clockwise from top left: Kyra Harris Bolden, Patrick O’Grady, Kimberly Ann Thomas and Andrew Fink are competing for two seats on the Michigan Supreme Court (Courtesy photos)

Justice Kyra Harris Bolden and Kimberly Ann Thomas win Michigan Supreme Court races, building on majority for Democratic nominees

A woman walks her dog at Sand Point, a beach made of stamp sands on the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community reservation. (Bridge photo by Kaden Staley)

President-elect Donald Trump, a climate denier who spent his first term in office rolling back environmental rules, is expected to embrace a pro-fossil fuel, anti-regulation agenda. (Bridge photo by Simon Schuster)

What can be done to cull Michigan’s ballooning deer herds? There are no easy answers. (Courtesy of Michigan DNR)

3M contends that Michigan did not adequately consider how much it would cost businesses to clean up contamination. (Shutterstock)

Data server farms are big business. But it takes a ton of energy to store data in the cloud, prompting concerns among environmentalists. Michigan is poised to give the servers tens of millions of dollars in tax breaks.

The centers typically use lots of energy and don’t provide many jobs, raising concerns from environmentalists and others.

Katy Dorfschmidt, center, converses with colleagues Andy Vaughn, left and Meagen Morrison, right, inside the Eagle nickel and copper mine in Marquette County. (Bridge photo by Ryan Stephens)

An adult lake trout. Fishery managers have declared the fish species recovered in Lake Superior. (Photo by Katie Steiger-Meister/USFWS)