For generations, the River Raisin in Brooklyn, Michigan, was a familiar part of everyday life. Children skated across its frozen surface in winter, boats moved through it in summer and residents ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jonathan Korbecki was relaxing at home on the Thornapple River one rainy February night when the fire marshal knocked on his door, ...

High hazard potential means that if the dam failed, there would be an expected loss of life and severe damage to surrounding ...

Jonathan Korbecki was relaxing at home on the Thornapple River one rainy February night when the fire marshal knocked on his door, warning the nearby Labarge Dam may fail and send a wall of water his ...

BROOKLYN, MI — What once was a tall slow-moving portion of the River Raisin, where children ice skated in the winter and boats floated in the summer, is now a shallow fast-moving stream. After about ...

Beavers doing what beavers do — building dams — has led to flooding problems just upstream of Sleeping Bear Dunes National ...

Ten of Michigan's 89 state-regulated high downstream hazard dams are in poor condition and could put lives and property at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” A quote attributed to Machiavelli, Winston Churchill and Saul Alinsky applies to Michigan’s ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in northern Michigan. Flooding across northern Michigan last month pushed rivers to record levels, ...

Jonathan Korbecki was relaxing at home on the Thornapple River one rainy February night when the fire marshal knocked on his door, warning the nearby Labarge Dam may fail and send a wall of water his ...

Jonathan Korbecki was relaxing at home on the Thornapple River one rainy February night when the fire marshal knocked on his door, warning the nearby Labarge Dam may fail and send a wall of water his ...