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  • Making art in the woods in the U-P
    Artists can apply to spend part of their summer in a cabin in the middle of the woods. The Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park is accepting…
  • Colombian army soldiers patrol Medellin's Loma de Cristobal neighborhood after warring gangs forced dozens of families to flee. Medellin used to be the most dangerous city in the world, but officials embarked on innovative projects designed to make life better in tough neighborhoods.
    Once Home To A Dreaded Drug Lord, Medellin Remakes Itself
    The Colombian city was the world's murder capital in the 1990s, but it managed to turn its fortunes around. Homicides were cut by 80 percent and made big gains on a number of fronts. But the city still faces many challenges in a region plagued by violence.
  • What's In Store: 3 Tales Of A Terrifying Future
    As society makes astonishing technological advances, some think our future looks brighter than ever. But author Drew Magary isn't getting his hopes up. He has three books that set the bar pretty low for what the next generations will experience.
  • Morning News Roundup: Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
    In this morning's news...
    Financial Crisis in DetroitThe state review team looking at Detroit’s finances yesterday formally declared the city to be in “severe financial distress.”…
  • <em>House of the Earth,</em> Woody Guthrie's 1947 novel about struggling young sharecroppers, is also filled with his drawings. Above, "Summer Leaves and Limbs," 1947.
    Woody Guthrie's 'House Of Earth' Calls 'This Land' Home
    Folk musician Woody Guthrie wrote thousands of songs in his lifetime — but as far as anyone knows, he only wrote one novel. Recently discovered, House of Earth is the story of struggling young sharecroppers who dream of creating a safe haven amid the dust storms and economic depression of the 1930s.
  • This is a stretch of Talmadge Creek that's about a half mile downstream from where the Enbridge Energy pipeline ruptured in 2010. Enbridge diverted the creek, excavated the contaminated creek bed, and reconstructed the creek.
    Crews continue to search for oil on the bottom of the Kalamazoo River
    We’re coming up on two years since a pipeline owned by Enbridge Energy ruptured. More than 840,000 gallons of tar sands oil spilled into Talmadge Creek…
  • Baseball hats with Marco Rubio campaign logo
    Marco Rubio calls for stronger military, more action to defeat ISIS
    Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio says the US needs to do more to confront terrorist threats at home and abroad. The Florida Senator was in…
  • Help with heating bills
    Every winter, people in Michigan die because they can’t afford to pay their heating bills, and the utilities shut their power off.Sometimes, they just…
  • "Governor-elect Rick Snyder has indicated the regulatory process needs to be streamlined.
    Regulatory Changes Coming to Michigan?
    http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/michigan/local-michigan-940883.mp3Business groups say Michigan’s regulations and the state’s…
  • Realities of regulatory red tape
    http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/michigan/local-michigan-939247.mp3Don’t misunderstand. Businesses in Michigan often complain about the…
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