Alligators live in the hot, swampy south: Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. They can’t survive Michigan winters.

Multiple sightings of an alligator in the Kalamazoo River has prompted the closing of a popular nature center in Michigan.

A Michigan woman whose clothes were found by a river near her abandoned vehicle is still missing after 19 years, officials said.

A Michigan farm’s animal waste practices are threatening to overload nearby bodies of water with harmful bacteria and pathogens, according to the attorney general.

A diver has died while inspecting a dam in southwestern Michigan.

Authorities work to recover a third body after police say a mother drove her vehicle with two children inside into the Kalamazoo River near Verberg Park. (WOOD)Authorities say a Michigan woman killed herself and twin daughters by driving into a river after trying to poison the children. Kalamazoo police released reports saying 44-year-old Ineza McClinton tried to make 9-year-old twins, Angel and Faith, drink juice with added antifreeze in the spring. McClintons mother told investigators about the plan, which included Ineza McClintons attempt to die by overdosing on pills. McClinton drove into the Kalamazoo River on June 17 after letting out two granddaughters.