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Invasive jumping worms pose growing threat to Michigan’s ecosystems --- EAST LANSING, MI – Dozens of reports of invasive jumping worms across Michigan’s Lower Peninsula – and a few in the Upper – are raising concerns about damages to the state’s [...]

Michigan lawmaker proposes 3% tax on short-term rentals booked online --- MICHIGAN,. (WPBN/WGTU) - - Tourism brought $54 billion to Michigan last year, but the influx of visitors also strains local infrastructure and essential services. In response, Rep. John Roth, R-104th [...]

Amazing Northern Lights display reaches down to Florida. Tonight’s aurora could dance even brighter --- Geomagnetic storm conditions ramped up overnight and into the wee hours of this morning, producing a Northern Lights display that stretched so far south over the [...]

Michigan's new political transparency portal delayed by months, company isn't meeting state goals --- Michigan’s new political transparency portal was delayed by months amid growing tensions between state officials and the contractor hired to build the system, according to emails obtained [...]

Residents of Michigan towns bordering Indiana and Wisconsin voted to ban or limit marijuana shops --- In the summer, the board in mostly rural Niles Township gave a preliminary OK to 21 cannabis stores along one road currently dotted with businesses [...]

Michigan football walk-on closing in on school record --- ANN ARBOR — Ideally, Joe Taylor would never do the thing he loves most on a football field. The Michigan fifth-year senior is closing in on a school record that illustrates his [...]

Michigan forecast makes a wild swing from snow to 60 degrees by the weekend --- After our weekend snow event, any flurries still lingering early today were expected to taper off by this evening. But then our warming trend arrives. We’ll see [...]

50 years later: Mid-Michigan man recounts Edmund Fitzgerald response --- Tony Hall was 19 and a seaman in the Coast Guard when the Edmund Fitzgerald sank. GRATIOT COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) - Fifty years ago Monday, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald freighter sank in [...]

Is Sherrone Moore the coach to lead Michigan football back to the top? Wolverines mailbag --- Two weeks from today, Ohio State week will be here and Michigan will know exactly what’s at stake. Wins the next two Saturdays against Northwestern and [...]

Trump pardons supporters who tried to reverse his 2020 Michigan loss --- Trump pardons supporters who tried to reverse his 2020 Michigan loss Lansing — President Donald Trump has pardoned more than 20 people who contributed to the push to overturn his [...]