HOUGHTON — Emergency managers in the Copper Country are waiting for water levels to drop to take stock of any additional damage caused from recent snow melt. This week’s winter storm carried snow with unusually high water content, bringing more moisture to areas that had already been hit ...

Press release LANSING, Mich. – Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer expanded state of emergency declarations to Alger, Baraga, Dickinson, Iron, Marquette and Ontonagon counties to help address the impacts of widespread flooding caused by melting snow due to warming temperatures. “Michigan ...

Waste Management was unable to run Monday in the City of Houghton because of poor road conditions caused by the storm. This means that all trash and recycling will be one day later this week. • Tuesday collection will be on Wednesday. • Thursday collection will be on Friday. Waste ...

RUNNING SPRINGS, Calif. — Jennifer Cobb and her husband planned on staying four days in their vacation rental in Southern California’s San Bernardino Mountains. But that stretched into a week as they were trapped by a relentless series of storms that has piled snow so high they can barely ...

Some Michigan residents faced a fourth straight day in the dark on Sunday as crews continued working to restore power to more than 175,000 homes and businesses in the Detroit metropolitan area following last week’s ice storm. Leah Thomas, whose home north of Detroit in the suburb of ...

PIERRE, S.D. — A brutal winter storm knocked out power in California, closed interstate highways from Arizona to Wyoming and prompted more than 1,200 flight cancellations Wednesday — and the worst won’t be over for several days. Few places were untouched by the wild weather, some at ...