As Lansing residents press the city to end its automated license plate reader contract with Flock Safety, members of DeFlock Lansing and the Michigan Capitol Visibility Brigade gathered at the interse...

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Attorney General Dana Nessel on Monday announced charges against two Michigan residents accused of making terrorist threats against public officials in unrelated incidents, including the mayor of Dear...

WASHINGTON — The rare 2026 issue that draws huge support from Republicans and Democrats in Congress is the same one that’s mobilized many Americans: restrictions on giant data centers. The House has o...

Advocates for children and young adults from across the state gathered in Lansing on Thursday as the Michigan League for Public Policy released a new report aimed at measuring the health, wealth and e...

Students ages 12 to 18 experienced higher rates of reported crime at school than away from school in 2024, according to a new federal analysis. But the overall rate of crime victimization at school ha...

DETROIT — The respective Republican and Democratic nominees for Michigan governor on Wednesday each proposed new solutions to the economic tariffs levied by the administration of President Donald Trum...

SOUTH LYON — Members of the South Lyon City Council met this week to discuss whether it should renew a contract for a set of automated license plate reader cameras located along 10 Mile Road. But the ...

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A total of 6,307 individuals were apprehended by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Michigan from the start of 2025 through early August 2026. But once taken into custody, what exactly happen...

Trump has ordered federal agencies to refer to Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” because apparently the best way to conduct trade negotiations with Canada is to pick an idiotic fight with a body of wate...

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

Thousands of acres of currently protected national forest land in Michigan could be opened to road construction and logging under a proposal from the U.S. Forest Service to rescind a 25-year-old rule.

A Texas oil billionaire with deep ties to the Christian Nationalist movement and a rising presence in the national GOP scene, has contributed $5 million to a super PAC backing Republican Mike Rogers’ ...

When Shane Veltkamp, now 31, entered the Newaygo County Jail in July 2023, he was fully mobile, independent and able to care for himself, although he would be diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, or MS,...

Following the Saline Township Board of Trustees’ decision to sign off on a property tax abatement for a controversial hyperscale data center under development by Oracle, OpenAI and Related Digital, on...

Lansing legislative experience, support from the grassroots wing of the Michigan Republican Party and a path to a smooth convention vote later this month were all reasons for GOP insiders to be excite...

I’m an American Jew, and my political loyalty is not to Democrats or to Republicans.  It is to American democracy. Full stop. That shouldn’t be controversial, but for some people, a Jew saying that th...

MICHIGAN VOTERS REJECT BIG MONEY, DEMAND FOCUS ON COST OF LIVING  Jon King gives Joan Esposito a recap of Tuesday's Michigan primary election results. King is editor-in-chief for Michigan Advance, a...

MAHA isn’t a wellness movement. It’s a suicide pact, run by people who are either sociopathically indifferent to the death toll or willfully blind to it.

Three decisions in the course of a week have left organized labor, environmental advocates, and grassroots progressives wondering whether Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is still governing for the coalition tha...

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Three decisions in the course of a week have left organized labor, environmental advocates, and grassroots progressives wondering whether Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is still governing for the coalition tha...

Questions of electability have loomed large for Abdul El-Sayed as he inches toward the finish line in a tight Democratic race for the U.S. Senate — both as a progressive candidate against a more estab...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) demands that the Trump administration withdraw subpoenas targeting several reporters from The New York Times after the news outlet reported this week on secu...

Democratic state Sen. Mallory McMorrow suspended her campaign for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat on Sunday, leaving the Aug. 4 Democratic primary race a two-way contest between U.S. Rep. Haley Steve...

We know from the new Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan book that President Trump threatened Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu last year with “divorce.” “Everybody’s sick of you, Bibi,” Trump told the Israel...