The importance of Macomb County to Michigan Democrats’ 2026 playbook was on full display Saturday as U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin joined U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed for a joint town hall event that...

Grand Traverse Bay has a new research boat — and it’s all-electric.

A court battle that began when conservative-led states sued to block protections for transgender people has ended in a rollback of protections for people with disabilities — a result disability advoca...

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Michigan's utility regulator voted unanimously Thursday to grant conditional approval for DTE Energy contracts to power Google's 1-gigawatt data center project in Van Buren Township.

DETROIT — Overcast skies and a sprinkling of rain that fell over Sunset Point on Belle Isle on Thursday afternoon failed to dim the excitement from government officials as Gov. Gretchen joined the hea...

Michigan Sen. Chedrick Greene (D-Saginaw) is no stranger to special state legislative elections — he took office in May as a result of one in the 35th Senate District.  On Thursday, he presented a bil...

District attorneys sent more people to state prison during election years than in other years during the height of the nation’s “tough on crime” era, according to a new study from Northwestern Univers...

Editor’s note: This story is part of Gen Z at the Ballot Box, a collaboration between States Newsroom and The 19th. Brenna Vandergeest was a teenager when her grandmother told her about Dobbs v. Jacks...

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Created through President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending law in 2025, the Education Freedom Tax Credit program allows individuals to claim a dollar-for-dollar federal tax credit of up to $1,7...

A D.C. Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that prosecutors cannot, for a second time, charge former Olympic canoeist David Hearn with damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Dozens of President Donald Trump's nominees remain held up amid Sen. Kevin Cramer’s outrage over a Biden-era rule dealing with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wetland easements that Cramer says harm hi...

The U.S. Senate adjourned Wednesday night and won’t return until Nov. 9 for the five-week lame-duck session, when party leaders will have to decide which bills they want to negotiate during what could...

More than 5 million Medicare beneficiaries have a diagnosis of dementia. Despite a 14-year campaign by the federal government to reduce the use of psychotropics, 1 in 4 Medicare beneficiaries with dem...

Voters in four states will decide housing-related ballot measures in November, providing testing grounds for different strategies to boost affordable homes. The six measures across California, Hawaii,...

A ruling from the Michigan Supreme Court regarding a permit for Enbridge's Line 5 tunnel project is echoing into other aspects of the state’s environmental permitting process, as the state’s high cour...

President Donald Trump is scheduled to kick off a month-long blitz of campaign stops in advance of the midterm elections with a Thursday rally in deep-red Oklahoma before heading to other states with ...

U.S. Senate Republicans did not gain any support Wednesday from Democrats as they attempted to advance a bill that mashed together two hot-button midterm issues: requiring voter ID in federal election...

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BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and the attorneys general in Arkansas and Alabama filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. Supreme Court, suing California, Massachusetts and New Y...

U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin introduced legislation in Congress to expand access to ovarian cancer prevention and care, including expanding access to genetic counseling and testing, improving hereditary c...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer joined reproductive freedom leaders in advocating against a ballot measure that would launch a constitutional convention in Michigan, arguing that it would open the door to remov...

A federal grand jury indicted 10 noncitizens for unlawfully voting in Minnesota, U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday, highlighting President Donald Trump's effort to keep election securi...

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has big plans for the U.S. Senate’s healthcare and labor policy-making committee if Democrats take back chamber in the upcoming general election, and Michigan Democratic U.S. ...

Barrett pushes for international AI agreement as health professionals back Doctors Not AI Act

Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed will have some extra firepower at his planned town hall tour stop in Warren this weekend, with U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin as the event’s newly anno...

Over the past year and a half, a dozen states have embraced a new vision for solar power: small, cheap panels that can be hung from a balcony or porch, be plugged into a standard wall outlet and take ...

Several Michigan clerks missed the deadline to mail absentee ballots, despite state laws that require them to be sent to voters at least 40 days before the election — which, for the 2026 midterms, was...

President Donald Trump is tapping $20 million in Homeland Security funding to pay for TV ads that heavily feature him ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats said Tuesday as the promos critics call ...

The five Michigan Secretary of State nominees from across the political spectrum appeared together for a virtual forum Tuesday hosted by the League of Women Voters, parsing questions on election secur...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted, for now, the Trump administration’s request to continue rapid third-country deportation of immigrants to countries not their own.

After instructing city officials to examine the legal implications of ending their contract for a pair of automated license plate reader cameras, members of the South Lyon City Council on Monday moved...

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The Trump administration must spend the $810 million that it said last week it planned to cancel, according to a report released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office.

Former special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday defended before a U.S. Senate panel his past investigations of President Donald Trump’s possession of classified documents and alleged role in attempts to ...

As absentee ballots make their way to voters, Michigan residents this election season are faced with another question beyond just candidates running for various offices.

In recent decades, more Michigan governors have been homegrown, but the state's first 17 governors were all born elsewhere.

Both Michigan gubernatorial candidates — Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Republican U.S. Rep. John James — have floated suspending the gas tax on some level —federal or state — as aff...

Noah Arbit, Mark Bernstein join ‘Nonnegotiable’ Jewish Democrats with policy demands for El-Sayed

The Michigan Libertarian Party released a statement Tuesday afternoon disavowing Anthony Hudson, a Genesee County truck driver who is the party’s own gubernatorial candidate. The party said that “the ...

As survivors of abuse come forward, the Justice for Survivors package offers Michigan lawmakers an opportunity to remove longstanding legal barriers that have kept many survivors from seeking legal ac...

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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WASHINGTON — Small businesses will once again challenge President Donald Trump’s tariffs in federal court this week as they continue to feel the squeeze of the administration’s roller coaster policy o...