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Three men, including two from metro Detroit, are facing federal charges for an illegal fire that ended up causing a wildfire on Isle Royale in Lake Superior.

The fire burned six acres over 13 days in August 2022 at the national park in Lake Superior.

A Lansing man is federally charged for allegedly trying to steal a gun from a police officer during an arrest in April.

The rolling green mounds of Ah-Nab-Awen Park in Grand Rapids, Mich., glimmered red on Friday, May 03, as hundreds of tribal citizens, leaders and allies gathered to demand justice for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP) crisis. The gathering, organized by the state's MMIP task force, was one of hundreds that took place around Indian Country for National MMIP Awareness Day, proclaimed by President Joe Biden as Sunday, May 5. Red is the official color commemorating MMIP, drawn from the common Native belief that red is the only color spirits can see.

Violence faced by Indigenous people is not simply a decades-long problem; it is a 500-year problem that continues to pervade every Indigenous family, said Melissa Pope, chief judge of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi Tribal Court. She spoke Friday during a Grand Rapids event to create awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous people. […] The post Hundreds gather to march in Grand Rapids for missing and murdered Indigenous people appeared first on Michigan Advance.