ALPENA — Northern Michigan residents learned firsthand the impacts and costs of severe weather events, like the ice storm ...

Many treetops snapped under the weight of all the ice that built up over several days. The DNR says the ice storm closed or damaged 19 state parks, along with 54 public campgrounds, and 169 boating ...

Branches, limbs and even whole trees were toppled by the ice storms that hit northern Michigan beginning March 29, 2025. Here, debris lies along the side of Polish Line Road in Cheboygan.

Hitch added that if community members are aware of a neighbor, friend or other resident with needs related to the ice storm, the community foundation encourages them to call or text 2-1-1, a ...

HB 4328 offers a modest but vital hand-up to communities that are too often overlooked when it comes to the allocation of ...

Severe ice storms the weekend of March 28-30 caused widespread damage throughout northern Michigan, leading Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to declare a 12-county disaster area, including Alcona, Alpena ...

Severe ice storms the weekend of March 28-30 caused widespread damage throughout northern Michigan, leading Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to declare a 12-county disaster area, including Alcona, Alpena ...

GAYLORD — Funding is drying up for community collection sites that handle debris from the March 28-30 ice storm in Northern Michigan, as operations will soon end in Cheboygan and Otsego counties.

The ice storm hit the Midwest in late March, bringing freezing rain and sleet to northern Lower Michigan. Icicles weighed down limbs and snapped the trunks of trees — many pine — like twigs.