Massive artificial intelligence data centers are rising from Indiana farmland. Residents report traffic and frustration with years of construction. “It isn’t our little town anymore,” one said.

Some advocates, including Michigan's attorney general, say utility customers shouldn't be the only ones paying millions for attorneys and consultants who argue for higher gas and electric rates.

Police found a migrant farmworker from Guatemala at a labor camp with a blood alcohol level seven times the legal limit to drive. The case shines a light on precarious conditions facing the "invisible...

“It does seem intended to silence people’s ability to talk about what they’re experiencing," said one lawyer who has represented clients in utility damage and billing disputes with DTE.

President Donald Trump denied federal disaster relief for utilities and individuals in a July declaration, and power cooperatives are already hiking rates to cover storm recovery costs.

Trump officials extended an emergency order keeping Consumer Energy's J.H. Campbell coal plant open through November.

Michigan hunters and animal rights activists have clashed over an annual three-month ban on coyote hunting while pups need their parents to survive.

Utilities paid big sums to bring power back, and disaster aid may not cover all of it. "There's fewer of us to bite this bullet," rural northern Michigan residents say.

A class action case strikes at Michigan’s oversight of the Edenville Dam prior to catastrophic flooding.

Over the long run, new Michigan building codes could save homebuyers substantially on utility bills, but builders say the upfront costs are too much.

Michigan residents pay on average the highest electric rates in the Midwest and among the steepest in the nation.

The Trump administration ordered Consumers Energy's J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant stay online days before it was slated to shut down. Experts say utility customers will bear the costs.

Consumers Energy was slated to close its last coal-fired power plant on Lake Michigan within weeks, but Trump officials are using emergency authority to intervene.

Is Michigan prepared for growing wildfire risks? Not unless we burn more, experts say

Despite the 2020 catastrophe, a slew of dam safety fixes remain shelved. “We’re still at the starting blocks waiting for the gun to go off,” said one long-time Lansing insider.

Game regulators reversed a controversial decision to prevent youth and hunters with disabilities from shooting bucks during special early seasons.

DTE and Consumers Energy allege a contractor botched a more than $500 million upgrade to the Ludington Pumped Storage Plant. Who will pay for repairs?

Hunting and fishing license fees have remained stagnant for more than a decade, and officials say the state is in dire need of conservation and parks funding.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources manages more dams than any other owner in the state. What happens as they keep aging?

Startups across the globe are searching for vast deposits of hydrogen gas, a 100% clean fuel, underground. Michigan's geology is perfect, scientists say.

Days after money for upgrading soup kitchens and restoring a blighted community center appeared to fall victim to a Trump administration rollback, officials restored the grants, saying the cuts were a...

The cuts threaten efforts to install solar panels on Detroit food pantries so they can weather power outages, the restoration of a blighted Benton Harbor community center and other projects.

Upper Peninsula Republicans, mining interests and business groups are worried state requirements to boost clean power will be "catastrophic" for Yoopers' electric bills. Environmentalists push back.

An explosion in clean energy development has clogged the process of hooking up to the power grid, threatening reliability, power bills and the climate, experts say.

Environmental advocates say loosening mercury pollution restrictions and requirements to slash carbon emissions at power plants amounts to a "denial of science" and will risk the health of communities...

The license fees haven't increased in more than a decade, and wildlife officials with the Michigan DNR say they plan to close fish research stations and cut conservation programs.

The major power companies could also earn financial incentives if they can demonstrate improvements in outage restoration time, under a new Michigan penalty and reward system.

Data centers powering cloud computing and artificial intelligence can use as much power as a city. Watchdogs say they want to make sure tech companies pay their fair share in Michigan.

Federal employees in Michigan fired during “Valentine’s Day Massacre.”

Five years after Emilio Lopez came to work in the United States, the question lingers: Why did he suddenly get deathly ill?

MLive mapped the parts of the state where residents' homes are hooked up directly to natural gas pipelines or underground storage reservoirs.

As renewable energy faces attacks from the White House, Republicans in Michigan are taking aim at a law meant to speed its buildout. It's a matter of local control, they say.

Millions of scrap tires have ended up incinerated at power plants and paper mills. With the practice declining, how will the state keep them out of landfills?

The power company has sought to hike rates as it pours billions into shoring up its historically unreliable grid. It says other savings will offset bill increases in 2025.

"This is an abusive relationship," said one commenter at a Detroit hearing on DTE Energy's request for higher electric rates.

Officials with the DNR recently assessed 1,200 acres of public trust land in Otsego County near a major power transmission line to decide whether it was suitable for solar arrays.

The Upper Peninsula is more than a decade ahead of Lower Michigan in ending the use of coal. Going 100% clean is more complicated.

After implementing increased rates in October, Consumers is asking regulators to consider a roughly 12% increase to monthly bills for residential customers.

The high-voltage transmission lines harden the grid against severe weather and unlock clean energy but could set up clashes with rural landowners along their routes.

Residents living above underground natural gas stockpiles near Holland are locked in a conflict with Consumers Energy.

The legislation aims to make the $14 "recreation passport" the default when renewing vehicle registrations, as well as exempt veterans and members of the military from paying the fee.

"Losing DEI is being presented as an appendectomy,” one student protester said. “But it is, in fact, a lobotomy.”

A significant share of farmworkers are undocumented, and Trump has promised an unprecedented deportation operation nationwide when he returns to the White House.

Capitalizing on the frustrations of Michigan drivers, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s 2018 election campaign prominently featured a pledge to “fix the damn roads.”

A dairy farm in Kalamazoo County produces about 60,000 tons of manure a year. It's about to be put to good use.

A Michigan utility buys above-market power from Cold War-era coal plants owned by an affiliate when cheaper options are on the table, critics say, and customers are worse off for it.

The state investigated after a company failed to address a Legionnaires’ outbreak and the bacteria grew again – killing one worker and sickening two others.

Meeting new Michigan targets for quickly ramping up wind and solar power will cost billions but will save money in the long-term, the utility projects.