LANSING, MI — Five years ago, Michigan learned a hard lesson about the dangers posed by its fleet of elderly, decrepit dams when days of heavy rain swelled the impounded rivers above the ...

Plans to rebuild four dams on Michigan’s Tittabawassee River are advancing as Four Lakes Task Force, the group leading the projects, says it received the final permit from the state Dept. of ...

More than five years after the catastrophic failure of the Edenville Dam, crews are deep into the most complex and costly phase of its restoration. The dam, which once held back Wixom Lake, breached ...

EDENVILLE, Mich. – Attorneys say newly unsealed court documents reveal Michigan state officials received repeated warnings about the Edenville Dam’s critical safety deficiencies for three years before ...

MIDLAND COUNTY, Mich. – A judge has made a decision on the case of the Edenville Dam disaster. The Michigan Court of Claims heard arguments in a lawsuit seeking to hold the state liable for the dam ...

The class action lawsuit over the Edenville Dam failure in 2020 will continue toward a trial in January after a Michigan ...

Michigan Court of Claims approved a class certification for residents and businesses impacted by the 2020 dam collapse in Midland and Gladwin counties, setting the stage for a Jan. 12, 2026 hearing.

A Michigan Court of Claims judge ruled that the state must answer allegations that it allowed unsafe water level increases at the Edenville Dam before its 2020 collapse.