Environment

Big Rock Italian Chophouse readies to open in Birmingham’s former Big Rock Chophouse space

A previously announced restaurant and cigar club are planning to open this summer

Detroit’s Concert of Colors to return to The Aretha, announces full lineup

The riverside amphitheater will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a performance by Chicago R&B singer Mavis Staples

Detroit’s long-standing Dakota Inn Rathskeller is under new ownership

The nearly century-old German beer hall is now owned by Paddy Lynch, who also owns The Schvitz, Convent Detroit, and Dutch Girl Donuts
Michigan residents are generally barred from feeding deer.
The bill comes after the director of a popular animal welfare group was charged with feeding deer
By Steve Neavling
Image: Detroit Thermal seeks to calm fears over steam project in historic Lafayette Park
By Steve Neavling
Lindsey Walker, with Emmet County Recycling, walks around one of the county's debris drop-off sites on April 25, 2025
By Izzy Ross, Interlochen Public Radio
The Straits of Mackinac.
By Izzy Ross, Interlochen Public Radio
The Great Lakes provide drinking water for more than 30 million people across both sides of the U.S.-Canada border.
By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, WBEZ and Izzy Ross, Interlochen Public Radio
Line 5 splits into twin pipelines just west of the Mackinac Bridge, and crosses along the lakebed for four miles.
By Lee DeVito and Izzy Ross, Interlochen Public Radio
Kevin Klein, CEO of Cherry Capital Airport, points to a graphic of the new terminal design in November of 2024.
By Izzy Ross, Interlochen Public Radio
Marie Richards loved her job as a tribal relations specialist for the U.S. National Forest Service. She was one of 3,400 workers targeted for layoffs.
By Katie Myers, Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, WBEZ and Izzy Ross, Interlochen Public Radio
Vice President JD Vance.
By Izzy Ross, Interlochen Public Radio and Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, WBEZ
Ice fishermen in Michigan, 2018.
By Izzy Ross, Interlochen Public Radio
Image: A rural energy co-op in northern Michigan wants a nuclear revival
By Izzy Ross, Interlochen Public Radio
Raul Gomez, operations manager at Wunsch Farms, walks through an orchard on the Old Mission Peninsula in November 2024.
By Izzy Ross, Interlochen Public Radio
In 2013, the National Wildlife Federation sent divers to look at Enbridge, Inc.'s aging pipeline in Michigan's Straits of Mackinac, and found it was violating its 1968 easement with the State of Michigan.
By Chrystal Blair, Michigan News Connection
Supporters of the Humbug Marsh Unit in Gibraltar celebrated the induction of the area into the Old-Growth Forest Network.
By Steve Neavling
Members of the partnership at a ceremony in Bailey Park in Detroit. From left, DTE Chairman Jerry Norcia, Mayor Mike Duggan, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Bailey Park Neighborhood Development Corporation Founder Katrina Watkins, and Greening of Detroit President Lionel Bradford.
By Steve Neavling
More Environment

Big Rock Italian Chophouse readies to open in Birmingham’s former Big Rock Chophouse space

By Lee DeVito

Big Rock Italian Chophouse will replace the former Big Rock Chophouse in Birmingham’s old Grand Trunk Western Railroad Depot.

Detroit’s Concert of Colors to return to The Aretha, announces full lineup

By Lee DeVito

Hugh Masekela, of South Africa, warms up before performing at the Concert of Colors Saturday, July 20, 2002, at Chene Park in Detroit.

Detroit’s long-standing Dakota Inn Rathskeller is under new ownership

By Lee DeVito

The Dakota Inn Rathskeller.

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