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The boat sank over the weekend in the Mediterranean Sea between Tunisia and Italy. About 25 people were rescued. Thousands of migrants have reached Italy's tiny Lampedusa island in the past few days.

Scientists studying a gas giant planet have found that it's partly cloudy and that its atmosphere gets altered by starlight from its host star.

Gov. Rick Snyder late tonight asked President Obama to declare both an emergency and an expedited major disaster for Genesee County. The request comes as…

Nurses at McLaren Macomb hospital say they’re at a crisis point, with dangerous levels of understaffing and poor working conditions that are impacting…

Long-term forecasts of less rain leads researchers to predict there will be a less severe outbreak of harmful cyanobacterial blooms. But where and when storms might hit, the number of hot days, and wind direction all complicate the forecast.

Twenty-two lakeshore Areas of Concern in the Great Lakes region will be cleaned up and restored under a billion-dollar investment that's part of the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Act.

More than 13,000 residents have applied for federal aid, but reconstruction will take months, officials say. There is no official count of how many people have been left homeless.

The U.S. Justice Department and Enbridge have reached an agreement that, if approved, would eliminate the requirement for one kind of inspection on the part of Line 5 that runs under the Straits of Mackinac.

State environmental regulators sent several violation notices to Tribar Manufacturing related to its unauthorized release of about 10,000 gallons of a hexavalent chromium solution into a sewer in Wixom. The carcinogenic chemical has been detected in a nearby pond and lake.

Safety advocates want all cars to come with technology that can tell drivers when they're speeding — or even force them to slow down. But the auto industry is not rushing to embrace it.