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 ...

DETROIT — The state of Michigan was cleared of liability Thursday in a disastrous 2020 dam failure that flooded communities, destroyed more than 100 homes and drained a popular lake. Court of Claims ...

As waters recede from Michigan’s latest dam failure crisis, Michigan leaders are once again vowing action on reforms that could help prevent similar crises in the future. Next week, a state House ...

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 ...

The state of Michigan is not liable for the damages resulting from the 2020 Edenville and Sanford dam failures in Midland and Gladwin counties and resulting flooding, a Michigan Court of Claims judge ...

TRAVERSE CITY, MI — An experimental river project that replaced an aging dam just got the kind of test engineers dread. Historic flooding pushed the Boardman River to extreme levels this month, but ...

Before widespread flooding threatened homes and businesses across northern Michigan this spring, lawmakers failed to act for five years on recommendations by a government task force that concluded the ...