Extreme heat and Canadian wildfires impacting Southeast Michigan on Wednesday
Southeast Michigan residents face two weather hazards on Wednesday, with an air quality alert issued due to wildfires and a continuing heat advisory.
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Southeast Michigan residents face two weather hazards on Wednesday, with an air quality alert issued due to wildfires and a continuing heat advisory.
Over 7,400 Metro Detroit residents had no power early Wednesday, waking up to warm and muggy conditions amid a heat advisory.
One person has died, and two others are injured, after a shooting early Wednesday on the local lanes of eastbound Interstate 96 near Bentler Street.
The rescue of two boys from a burning home in Orion Township included a deputy climbing on a trash bin.
A passing boater rescued a man who fell off a personal watercraft Saturday in Anchor Bay, the Macomb County Sheriff's Office said.
Police are seeking tips to help solve a "smash and grab" style jewelry theft at Helzberg Diamond Outlet in Auburn Hills.
All lanes of eastbound Interstate 94 at Moross Road in Metro Detroit were shut down for hours for a police investigation on Tuesday.
The entire state of Michigan will be under an air quality alert on Wednesday due to particulate pollution from Canadian wildfire smoke, environmental officials said.
Huntington Bank has decided to close 13 branches in Michigan, many of which are in Metro Detroit.
Police say a man who was held after Saturday's shooting at a shopping mall in Auburn Hills has been released from custody.
Cooling centers are open, and some events are canceled, on Tuesday in Metro Detroit in response to a heat wave.
A 12-year-old girl was airlifted for medical care, and a woman was also taken to a hospital in the aftermath of an attack by three dogs in Hillsdale County.
The FBI says it is now involved in the case of a newborn baby's body that was found in a portable toilet building at a West Michigan music festival.
Some of Metro Detroit's communities have opened cooling center services in response to the heat wave.
A police chase that wound through five communities on Thursday resulted in the arrest of a South Lyon man on multiple fleeing charges.