Doctors Jennifer Blitz Sobol and Louis Sobol are practicing physicians who live in West Bloomfield. About 20 years ago, three months after launching her medical practice, Sobol’s twin boys were born nine weeks ahead of her due date.

Michigan lakes, streams, and rivers get their life from the watersheds that feed them, and the health of those watersheds is crucial to the life of those waterbodies. With 63 major watersheds in Michigan that break into another 267 sub-watersheds, these networks of lakes and streams eventually make their way to the Great Lakes. To dive deeper into efforts to maintain the health of watersheds, five Southeast Michigan Watersheds, including the Clinton River, Rouge River, Huron

Andrew Lyon was hired by the East Lansing Police Department as an officer in 2024. By the time he resigned in April 2026, he was the subject of four internal department investigations. According to local reporting from WLNS-TV, in just two years on the job, Lyon was under investigation for speeding through red lights during a pursuit without lights and sirens, running red lights, and speeding in a personal vehicle. He had also ignored direct commands from his superiors not to

Mark, a veteran English and journalism teacher in an Oakland County school district, has just about had it. In his 18 years of teaching, he has witnessed the ever-increasing reliance on curriculum delivered digitally and its impact on teaching in classrooms where every student has their own device. Technology has become a barrier between his lessons on writing, literature, grammar, and sentence structure and the students who need to learn them.

Leo Hendrick Baekeland innocently invented plastic in 1907. The easily shaped, durable, and inexpensive material became a staple in homes and businesses, with thousands of beneficial uses. Other scientists would come along and build upon the invention, but few probably foresaw the global problems they were creating in their labs.

The violent actions of Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers that led to the deaths of American citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Minnesota, are still vivid in the memories of people living in Southeast Michigan.

The United States of America was built on rugged individualism and free thinking. That being said, this country has always had its share of vaccine-hesitant or anti-vaccination movements. They stretch back to the time when British scientist Edward Jenner discovered the antidote for smallpox in 1721.

Every time you search the internet for information, from “how to make Detroit-style pizza” to “tell me about Michigan turtles,” or stream your favorite show or even send an email, those requests are routed to the nearest, fastest-available data center through a global network that prioritizes low latency (speed) and proximity to you, drawing from many locations, such as Ohio, Oregon, or even Ireland, rather than one single place. As the world continues to rely on the World Wi

For nearly two decades, law enforcement officials, along with policymakers, social workers and public health officials, have put their heads together in attempts to untangle the tentacles of the sex and human trafficking industry that has wound its way into every corner of Michigan.