Engineers will evaluate whether deeper drawdowns or a removal is the best path for the troubled Au Train Dam in Alger County.

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 Judge James ...

Flooding across northern Michigan last month pushed rivers to record levels, testing the limits of the state’s aging dams so severely that officials in one city nearly ordered evacuations as water ...

According to the National Weather Service, Wednesday morning, the Tittabawassee River was expected to crest at a record of 38ft, impacting Midland and Gladwin counties in central Michigan. The river ...

Local, state and federal officials were aware of the dangers posed by the Cheboygan Lock and Dam for years before floodwaters pushed it to the brink of collapse, records show. Yet they failed to ...

Many of the state's dams are aging and were built for a different economy and climate. There was urgency in the voice of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at a press briefing in a Cheboygan utility barn last ...

LANSING, MI — Officials warned lawmakers this week that recent flooding pushed several dams close to failure as lawmakers debated a sweeping overhaul of Michigan’s aging dam safety laws and new ...

Six years after the Edenville Dam collapse devastated thousands of mid-Michigan residents, attorneys for flood victims are asking the Michigan Court of Appeals to overturn a ruling that cleared the ...

Water seeps through the dam’s embankment, the spillway is too small to pass a major flood and the gates controlling water flow past the dam are in a “deteriorated condition,” according to an April 27 ...