"If all those agencies sign off and the dam comes down and it's a repairable bridge, it could be as early as May." ...

The Floyd County Commissioners are moving toward removal of a low-head dam that closed the Blackiston Mill Road bridge when ...

FLOYD COUNTY — The Floyd County Commissioners approved an agreement to pursue the removal of the Blackiston Mill dam.

Before any vehicles can traverse the bridge, Floyd County must undertake a crucial two-step process. First, the county needs to remove what remains of the dam—a task that is expected ...

The dam’s collapse redirected the water’s course, forcefully eroding the embankment and compromising the stability of a vital ...

Now I know you may be thinking: “what’s in Southfield, Michigan?” And it’s a great one to ask. With a Black homeownership rate of nearly 70% and a negative poverty rate, this Detroit ...

Melting snow, coupled with yesterday’s rain, caused an ice dam in the Pleasant River to give way. Just after 12:30 p.m., first responders received a report that the water level had overtaken part of ...

"We generally see streams recover to a point where we didn't even know there was a dam there," Jeremy Dietrich, an aquatic ecologist at the New York State Water Resources Institute, told Yale ...

which a coalition of environmental groups pushing for dam removal have criticized. Federal regulators are recommending that four Kennebec River dams receive new licenses, with some additional ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Garlin Gilchrist II, a Democrat from Detroit who is Michigan’s first Black lieutenant governor, announced he’s jumping into the crowded 2026 race for governor on Tuesday.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II is joining a crowded race for Michigan’s 2026 Democratic gubernatorial ...