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In 2021, agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting accounted for 16% of the state’s workplace fatalities by industry, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
New legislative maps ordered by a federal court panel reduce the number of districts that include both Detroit and its northern suburbs in an effort to restore electoral power of Black voters.
A campus shooting exposed weaknesses in MSU security. The university will use artificial intelligence to fill some gaps as part of a sweeping $10M security upgrade that may take several years to complete.
The former president is expected to campaign in Grand Rapids following an alleged murder by a previously deported man who re-entered the country illegally.
A total solar eclipse will occur on April 8 and officials in Monroe County are working together to prepare for the mass of people traveling south to Luna Pier or Toledo to see it.
Days after U-M’s president was shouted down by pro-Palestinian demonstrators, officials are pitching a policy that would punish students and others for disrupting university activities.
A new report by the American Civil Liberties Union and others used court data and interviews with sexual-health advocates, attorneys and providers to examine Michigan’s 1991 law requiring parental consent for abortions
Less than a quarter of the money Michigan’s state government has received to fight the opioid crisis has been spent, more than a year after the funds began flowing into state coffers.
New Detroit-area state House maps are better for Black representation, a federal court rules. No incumbents will be drawn out of their districts, and the statewide map still tends to favor Democrats.