Straits of Mackinac during a Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City MH-60 overflight on April 4, 2018. The Coast Guard conducted overflights of areas of interest for a mineral oil spill from a submerged utility line to monitor the extent of the spill and identify any product on the surface.
This Feb. 11, 2014 aerial file photo shows a view of the Mackinac Bridge, which spans a 5-mile-wide freshwater channel called the Straits of Mackinac that separates Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas. Officials say hundreds of gallons of potentially toxic coolant fluid have leaked from electric power cables in the waterway that links Lake Huron and Lake Michigan.
A pilot who was pulled off an airplane in Traverse City, MI in August of last year has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for operating an aircraft while intoxicated. The incident occurred before the plane left Traverse City, and his lawyer tried to argue that the pilot, 35-year-old Sean Michael Fitzgerald, had not operated the airplane under the influence because it had been sitting at the gate and no passengers had boarded when he was removed from the aircraft with a blood-alcohol level of 0.34 percent.
President Donald Trump's administration says it's time for state and local governments to ... . FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2016 file photo, steam rises up on the surface of Lake Michigan at sunrise in Chicago.