In a tiny Indiana town, massive artificial intelligence data centers were pitched as economic saviors. So far, residents say the results are mixed.

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.

La policía encontró a un trabajador agrícola migrante de Guatemala en un campamento de trabajadores con un nivel de alcohol en sangre siete veces superior al límite legal para conducir. El caso arroja...

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.

As DTE and Consumers Energy plan for power-hungry computing facilities undergirding artificial intelligence, state regulators are offering a chance to "have your say in Michigan’s energy future.”

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 Consumers Energy CEO says it will be a challenge keeping the company’s last coal-fired power plant open.

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.

Indigenous people stewarded the land for millennia and using fire was among the ways they did it.

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.”

Los defensores dicen que la muerte de Emilio López pasó desapercibida por un sistema con protecciones laborales débiles para los campesinos.

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

A year after a major methane leak from underground gas storage, a new study identifies potentially thousands of similarly risky sites across the United…

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

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.