With charts of county, city population changes: Much of Michigan loses residents, but growth of the west side offsets losses. Populations of Flint, Detroit plummet; challenge eyed.

Two months after the state’s workplace safety regulators dropped most COVID-19 restrictions, they’re once “strongly’ encouraging masks but not mandating them.

Public health advocates and bipartisan lawmakers are advocating for new funding to fix the failing septics that leech fecal bacteria, viruses and toxins into Michigan’s waterways.

Customers are ready to spend, but the state’s hospitality businesses can’t operate at 100 percent, according to a new industry survey. They’re ‘leaving money on the table’ instead of rebuilding lost revenue.

Michigan’s roads and bridges are in sorry shape. Biden’s infrastructure bill wouldn’t fix all of them.

The board, by a 6-2 vote, rejected a non-binding resolution by Republican members to prevent schools from requiring masks, COVID tests or quarantining unvaccinated students. One GOP member was in tears.

Even as COVID cases increase, online-only learning won’t be an easy option for schools this year. The policy shift was agreed to by the GOP legislature and Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Sen. Majority Leader Mike Shirkey says he’s already immune because he had COVID-19. But organizers of the Mackinac Policy Conference say all attendees must prove they are vaccinated.

For the first time in decades, Kent County is luring more residents from Chicago than it is losing. That helps explain why it’s one of few areas of Michigan that is gaining population.

Critics question interview of firm with GOP ties and a history of defending legislatures accused of drawing illegal districts to a citizens’ panel created to end gerrymandering.

The massive storms that ripped through southeast Michigan this summer are likely the state’s new normal, but our aging infrastructure was designed for the climate of the past.

The state prison recidivism rate has fallen sharply over two decades, attributed to policy reforms, falling crime and more intensive job training. But many former inmates still struggle for jobs and housing and wind up back behind bars.