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Homeless Awareness Week is ongoing across Michigan.  It’s meant to recognize the over 69,000 people who experienced homelessness in the state in 2015. When compared to 2014, Eric Hufnagel , the Executive Director for the Michigan Coalition Against Homelessness, says the state has experienced a six-percent decrease in overall homelessness.

Michigan State University entomologist Howard Russell says usually outdoor mosquitoes are gone by the end of October. But this year it has not yet been cold enough to put an end to them for the year. Russell says these mosquitoes hatched during the very rainy early fall and likely don’t …

Over the last few months, for the most part, much of Michigan has experienced above normal temperatures. But Justin Titus,, a Meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Marquette, says that is going to change starting today. Titus says coastal wave heights could reach 20-feet or higher, which could cause …