About Michigan Gateway

Michigan Gateway is a real-time intelligence dashboard for the state of Michigan — a single place to see the day's weather, river, Great Lakes, environmental, economic, and community signals, sourced exclusively from authoritative public agencies.

What we do

Michigan generates an extraordinary volume of public data every day — National Weather Service watches and warnings for 83 counties, USGS streamgage readings on every major river, Great Lakes water levels, EPA beach-water-quality advisories, MDOT 511 road-condition reports, federal grant solicitations relevant to Michigan applicants, USAJobs postings located in the state, and FEMA disaster-aid records. That information lives across dozens of portals built for specialists, not residents. Michigan Gateway consolidates it into a single situational view that updates throughout the day.

Where the data comes from

National Weather Service — active watches, warnings, advisories for all 83 counties
USGS Water Data — live stream-stage and discharge from 30+ Michigan streamgages
NOAA GLERL & CO-OPS — Great Lakes water levels, ice cover, buoy temperatures
EPA AirNow & BEACON — air quality and beach-water advisories
EGLE — PFAS sites, drinking-water exceedances, harmful algal blooms
FEMA OpenFEMA — disaster declarations and assistance awards for Michigan
Grants.gov & SBA — federal grants open to Michigan applicants
USAJobs & Michigan Civil Service — federal and state job openings
MDOT 511 — Michigan road and travel conditions
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Michigan metro unemployment

Who builds it

Michigan Gateway is a project of TRUiC in partnership with The SunTimes News, a Michigan-focused local-news publisher. TRUiC builds public-good information products at scale; The SunTimes News brings deep regional editorial expertise. Together we maintain Michigan Gateway as a free, ad-light, sign-up-free resource for Michigan residents, journalists, county officials, business owners, and anyone with a stake in the state.

How it differs from other dashboards

Most weather and government-data dashboards are either national in scope (so Michigan-specific signals are buried) or single-source (only NWS, only USGS). Michigan Gateway is purposefully cross-source and Michigan-only — the same page that shows your county's tornado watch also shows the nearest stream gauge level, current beach advisories on the closest Great Lakes shoreline, and any open grant programs your business or municipality could apply to today. It's built for situational awareness, not deep-dive research, though every panel links back to its authoritative source for verification.

Coverage

We currently surface live data for all 83 Michigan counties, 30+ USGS streamgages, every Great Lake bordering Michigan, and the state's major metropolitan areas. Programmatic per-county and per-gauge pages mean you can bookmark a single URL — like /wayne-county or /tittabawassee-river-at-midland — and always get the current state.