JOHN FLESHER

April 17, 2019 at 10:56 am

Michigan governor open to allowing Great Lakes oil tunnel

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Wednesday that she's open to allowing construction of an oil transport tunnel beneath the channel where...

Business

April 1, 2019 at 9:39 am

Judge orders closer look at Great Lakes oil spill plans

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a government agency to take a closer look at pipeline company Enbridge's plans for dealing...

Business

March 29, 2019 at 3:10 pm

Trump backtracks on call to gut $300M Great Lakes program

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — President Donald Trump tried repeatedly to gut funding for a wide-ranging Great Lakes cleanup, only to be stymied by Congress....

March 28, 2019 at 12:59 pm

Michigan governor halts Great Lakes pipeline tunnel project

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A law that Michigan's Republican-led Legislature hurriedly passed during a lame-duck session in December authorizing construction of an oil pipeline...

Business

March 21, 2019 at 2:39 pm

Hungry wolves may get new home at Isle Royale National Park

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A U.S.-Canadian team prepared Thursday for another mission to relocate gray wolves to Isle Royale National Park in Michigan from...

March 21, 2019 at 7:15 am

Report: Great Lakes feeling effects of rapid climate warming

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Great Lakes region is warming faster than the rest of the U.S., a trend likely to bring more extreme...

March 14, 2019 at 5:49 am

Wolves prove resilient, but proposal could curtail expansion VIEW

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A proposal to strip gray wolves of their remaining federal protections could curtail their rapid expansion across vast swaths of the...

March 11, 2019 at 12:38 pm

Trump seeks cuts to funding for cleanup of Great Lakes, other waterways

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — President Donald Trump is making another attempt to slash federal funding that goes toward cleaning up major U.S. waterways including...

FILE – This July 16, 2004, file photo, shows a gray wolf at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn. The federal government is considering another attempt to drop legal protections for gray wolves across the lower 48 states, reopening a lengthy battle over the predator species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tells The Associated Press it has begun a science-based review of the status of the wolf, which presently is covered by the Endangered Species Act in most of the nation. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, File)

March 6, 2019 at 7:49 am

U.S. plans end to wolf protections; critics say it's premature

The decision to lift protections is based on gray wolves successfully recovering from widespread extermination last century, said a U.S. Fish and Wildlife spokesman. Since...

Local News

March 4, 2019 at 9:34 am

4 Canadian wolves relocated to Isle Royale National Park VIEW

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Four Canadian wolves have been relocated to Isle Royale National Park in Michigan as part of an ongoing effort to...

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