northern Michigan News

2 Dead; Northern Michigan Town Cleans Up from Rare Tornado

Roofs and walls on a busy business stretch were turned to tangled rubble. Mobile homes were destroyed. Tornadoes are so uncommon in northern Michigan that Gaylord doesn’t have a siren system to warn people about hazardous weather. The town of …

Fire Risk Rises Again in Northern Michigan

The fire danger is on the rise in northern Michigan again, one year after a blaze destroyed 31 square miles of forest and marshland in the Upper Peninsula. The Duck Lake fire was the largest of many wildfires that struck …