"With new members on the board, we need to work together and we need to go forward. We obviously have some new issues to work ...

Internal documents show DNR foresters questioned plans to lease and clearcut land for solar panels, and leadership struggled ...

Environmental advocates and forestry experts question Michigan’s decision to deforest state land for solar arrays.

"We thought this is a site we can lease and not do a bunch of environmental harm," said Scott Whitcomb of the DNR.

The company behind the proposed solar panel project in Otsego County's Hayes Township said it won't be using land from the ...

The Chenango County Sheriff's Office says a Village of New Berlin resident was arrested and charged after making a false ...

A plan to locate a solar farm on state-owned land in northern lower Michigan was scuttled before bipartisan criticism of the ...

Northern Michigan lawmakers are calling for the department of natural resources to end its plan to put solar panels in Ots ...

This article was updated from the version that appeared in the Jan. 9 print edition of the Avalanche. The proposed lease of a 420-acre portion of state land by the Michigan Department of Natural ...

The defendant was charged with falsely reporting an offense to law enforcement and two counts of false written statement.

The Otsego County Board of Representatives unanimously re-elected Edwin Frazier, R-District No. 1, as chairperson and Meg Kennedy, District No. 5, as vice chairperson for 2025 at its meeting Thursday, ...

Otsego County Clerk Jennifer Basile issued a reminder this week that the Department of Motor Vehicles satellite office in downtown Oneonta is not open five days a week.