As mega-subsidies through Michigan’s SOAR Fund lose luster with both parties, Democrats propose adding more corporate accountability, oversight and community benefits to incentive deals.

Michigan Democrats advance legislation to boost the state’s already high voter registration rates by automatically registering Medicaid recipients and released prisoners.

Michigan is investing another $70 million in an effort to boost education attainment levels. The program pays for free community college those without degrees.

Global warming is the latest in a string of challenges to face the lakes in their young (geologically speaking) lives. More than 150 native fish species are at risk.

Government officials begin the grim task of prioritizing which cold lakes and rivers to sacrifice — or save — as the climate changes. Not all cold-water loving fish may survive in the northern Great Lakes region.

Michigan would create a new board with the power to cap prescription drug costs under a plan backed by the Democratic-led Legislature and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

An independent commission’s redraw of legislative maps following the 2020 Census faces scrutiny on claims it diluted representation for minority voters by extending Detroit districts into the suburbs.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has a 'great deal' of concern about a prolonged auto strike but is optimistic Ford will eventually finish a planned EV battery plant suspended amid UAW negotiations.

Motorcycle deaths rise 34 percent in the decade since Michigan Legislature partially repealed helmet law. Most states also don’t require helmets.

The lawsuit involves key players in a $25 million state grant suspended amid an investigation into a project led by an ex-aide to Michigan House Speaker Jason Wentworth.

The Canadian energy giant pleads with Michigan officials to intervene, saying federal authorities are slow-walking their review of a key permit needed to build a tunnel in a pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac.

Law enforcement agencies are wrestling with thorny challenges posed by a new law intended to take firearms away from people with a high risk of violence.