Michigan's environment department found new detections of 1,4-Dioxane in residential wells in Scio Township. Washtenaw County says these wells have been tested before, but the state has lowered its level for reporting dioxane.

The massive oil spill in the Kalamazoo River 15 years ago polluted the water and shoreline and left oil-coated wildlife. More than a million gallons of oil was recovered along a more than 35 mile stretch of the river.

The National Wildlife Federation says Michigan's environment department should fully review what damage drilling the tunnel for a new pipeline segment might cause.

The EPA is granting more than $2 million to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission to help address the invasive sea lamprey in Michigan waters.

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy is taking comments and has scheduled virtual meetings for the public regarding permits to build a tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac for the oil and natural gas liquids pipeline, Line 5.

Barn Sanctuary in Chelsea, Michigan wants to stand as a living model where animal welfare and ecological stewardship are not just compatible, but linked.

The Great Lakes piping plover recovery effort has been ongoing since the mid-1980s when the population got as low as a dozen nesting pairs. This year, the number reached 85 nesting pairs for the first time.

The common loon, Fe, has broken records again with the arrival of loon chicks 43 and 44. Fe is the "world's most productive" loon known to exist.

Advocates say information about the state's findings on the Wyandotte water system should have been available to the public much earlier.

Whitefish have survived and fed Michiganders for centuries. It's synonymous with Great Lakes food and Great Lakes living. But things have taken a bittersweet tone as the whitefish near collapse.