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A large fire kills hundreds of thousands of hens in Otsego and sent smoke and an offensive odor to Battle Creek and beyond.

At the White House Monday, President Trump said that “great strides” had been made at the Superfund site, even though it was “beyond fix up, they thought it was never gonna happen”.

The parcels are located in counties mainly in central/northern Lower Michigan and in the Upper Peninsula.

40-year-old Luciana Ortiz of Otsego died several days after the horrific accident back on December 8th.

While the cause of these high levels isn’t yet confirmed, DEQ spokespeople say that there is a “correlation” between the PFOS and the use of firefighting foams at the Battle Creek Air National Guard Base.

Results from testing done in July have found dioxins in residential water wells in the Otsego area. Preliminary test results were received for 16 residential wells in the Otsego area, 14 in Allegan County and 2 in Kalamazoo County, indicating some levels of dioxins are in the water wells.

We are almost there! Warm weather is actually closer than we think. It's important to focus on the fact that we only have a few more weeks of cold weather, realistically.

A new Facebook group is pushing for answers to rising health concerns in the Allegan County city of Otsego.

According to his family, 34-year-old Jesse Albrecht died Wednesday; he had been riding an ATV on October 6 in the Houghton Lake Area, when he crashed into a tree head-on. He had been wearing a helmet, but still suffered severe and ultimately fatal injuries.