The No. 8 Michigan Wolverines will host the No. 25 Illinois Fighting Illini for a Top 25 Big Ten matchup tonight.

Fans can catch the conference action exclusively on Peacock at 7 p.m. ET. Live sports plans start at $10.99 per month and include access to NBC’s live broadcast as well as hundreds of hit TV shows and movies.

The Wolverines are 14-2 overall, 5-1 against conference opponents and they’re also 9-0 at home so far this season. They’re riding a three-game winning streak, which includes an 86-60 victory over Wisconsin on Sunday. Olivia Olson had a team-high 21 points in the win, and Mila Holloway and Te’Yala Delfosse each added 18 points.

The Fighting Illini are 14-3 and 4-2 in Big Ten play. They’re looking to build on the momentum from their 92-76 victory over Penn State on Sunday. Berry Wallace led the team with 28 points and eight rebounds in the win.

NCAA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

No. 8 Michigan (14-2) vs. No. 25 Illinois (14-3)

When: Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026

Where: Crisler Center, Ann Arbor, MI

Time: 7 p.m. ET

Streaming: Peacock

If you normally use street parking for your vehicle, you may be asked or instructed to move it on Thursday. 

The reason is that several Metro Detroit communities have invoked snow emergency rules in response to the wintry mix of weather that started Wednesday afternoon and continued into Thursday morning. Some areas are reporting several inches of snow. 

A snow emergency in Michigan’s cities and villages is a local rule invoking street parking restrictions on designated roads and at designated times so that snowplows can clear the area. In some communities, tickets and fines are issued for violations. 

The following communities are among those that have issued snow emergency notices: 

Belleville

The City of Belleville has declared a snow emergency until Saturday.

“All vehicles should be removed from City streets so that snow plows can clear the snow,” city officials said.

Dearborn

The City of Dearborn declared a snow emergency at 7 p.m. Wednesday. All vehicles are ordered off the city streets so that snowplows can work. Any vehicles that remained on the streets after 4 a.m. Thursday could face a ticket or be towed.

Additional details are on the city’s website.

Dearborn Heights 

Dearborn Heights Mayor Mo Baydoun issued a snow emergency effective 7:30 p.m. Wednesday until 5 p.m. Thursday. All vehicles are asked to be move from the streets, as street parking is prohibited during this time.  

“Cars left on the street will be ticketed,” the mayor said. 

Flat Rock

The City of Flat Rock has declared a snow emergency, to remain in effect until 12 a.m. Friday.

“Please remove all vehicles from the street so that our Public Service crews can effectively plow and salt our streets,” the police department said.  

Novi 

The City of Novi asked residents Wednesday night to move any vehicles that are parked on the streets “so crews can plow curb to curb.” 

Pontiac 

Pontiac Mayor Mike McGuinness declared a snow emergency starting 8 p.m. Wednesday through 8 a.m. Sunday. Public work crews have been making the rounds to clear the streets. 

A snow emergency in Pontiac includes no parking on downtown streets between 3 and 6 a.m. There also is no parking on any streets marked “snow emergency route,” and no parking on designated sides of streets on designated days. Updates are posted on the city’s website. 

Taylor

The city of Taylor invoked snow emergency procedures effective 8 a.m. Thursday.

An emergency alert sent by the city Wednesday night appears to have been broadcast throughout Wayne County, which means residents of other communities may have received it on their cell phones.

The above video originally aired Jan. 14.

LANSING, Mich. – Michigan’s coyotes are back to year-round pressure from hunters and trappers after a major policy reversal by state game regulators.

The state Natural Resources Commission voted unanimously on Wednesday on a controversial measure to allow coyotes to be killed all year long, backtracking on a position the state had successfully defended in court. Hunting groups immediately praised the change.

“It empowers landowners, safeguards the wildlife, protects our agricultural community and upholds Michigan’s conservation legacy,” said Merle Jones of the Michigan Trappers and Predator Callers Association.

Previously, Michigan game regulators had established a “quiet period” when coyotes could not be killed from mid-April to mid-July. That’s when coyote pups are vulnerable and not yet weaned from their mother’s milk.

State officials had been motivated by concern that hunters would leave young coyotes orphaned, turning public perception against hunting more broadly. Hunting groups balked at that notion and sued the state to overturn the policy.

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Last June, an Ingham County judge ruled against the hunting groups; an appeal of the decision remains pending.

Since then, the NRC has faced months of calls from hunters to restore coyote hunting opportunities. That’s while animal rights activists urged commissioners to stay the course.

This week the commissioners responded to the pressure from hunters.

Regulators didn’t fully restore year-round hunting and trapping of coyotes, though.

Instead, the NRC expanded “out-of-season” killing of overabundant coyotes or those causing interspecies conflicts on public and private lands, according to the approved state wildlife order.

A coyote hunting and trapping season will run from Oct. 15 through March 1. Then what regulators call a “management season” will cover the remainder of the year, when coyotes could only be killed on private property.

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The new rules will take effect March 1 this year.

The coyote regulation changes also drew opponents to this week’s meeting in Lansing.

Mitchell Nelson of Humane World for Animals nonprofit criticized the language of the wildlife order. He specifically complained that interspecies conflict isn’t defined, nor is a standard for what qualifies as an overabundance of coyotes.

“We don’t even have a current population count of coyotes, so with no accurate additional count of coyotes, no metrics for determining relative coyote abundance and distribution in an area, and no reporting requirement for the killing of coyotes, the concept of addressing overabundance is rendered completely meaningless,” Nelson told the commissioners during public comments.

“The bottom line is that increasing the random and indiscriminate killing of coyotes will not achieve any management objective,” Nelson said.

Game regulators also heard from a state scientist during their meeting.

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Commissioner John Walters asked the furbearer specialist for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources whether it’s believed the change to coyote regulations would have any negative effect on the species population.

“We do not expect this proposed change to have a population level impact on coyotes,” said Cody Norton, DNR wildlife biologist.

Research has shown that more than 70% of coyotes in an area must be killed to reduce the population. As prolific breeders, the animals can recover their population within a year if only 60% are removed.

Rebecca Humphries, NRC chairperson, said the change is meant to address nuisance animals without altering the regular hunting and trapping season.

“The whole concept is to try and keep the integrity of the hunting and trapping season when they’re used as a furbearer species for pelts, and then outside that give people essentially the ability to take the species whenever it’s causing problems for them,” Humphries told MLive.