First-year MSU students will have to pay nearly 7 percent more for dorm rooms and meals than current first-year students, based on rising food and energy costs. MSU continues to withhold records on serial sexual abuser Larry Nassar, citing attorney-client privilege.

Pediatrician Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, who exposed the Flint water crisis and its impact on the city’s children, will oversee the program funded by the Flint-based Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.

Downtown Detroit visitors this weekend will notice more police, street closures, weapon detectors and other measures to prevent shootings.

The Senate Appropriations Committee approved state incentives by a slender 10-9 vote, with three Democrats joining six Republicans in opposing the EV battery factory deal championed by Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Alcoholic drinks aren’t currently allowed at Michigan university sporting events. Some lawmakers are looking to change that.

Perchloroethylene cleans suits and silks like no other, but it also contaminates soil and groundwater. Some lawmakers want to ban the chemical, but dry cleaners fear another hit to their struggling industry.

In overturning the 1973 Roe decision last year, the nation’s highest court pushed abortion questions back to state politics, but now it likely will decide the fate of the abortion pill mifepristone. Michigan providers have vowed to continue access.

Michigan’s vote on whether to award the company a $175 million incentive comes after decades of trying to attract Chinese business — an effort that continues today, despite rising U.S.-China tensions.

Michigan lawmakers are considering bills to ban drivers from holding their phone while driving. They have bipartisan support.

The first-of-its-kind ordinance would have escalated the culture wars over books in public and school libraries. But a network of fast-responding librarians went to work raising opposition. By Tuesday evening, the draft law was shelved.

The updated booster is for those over 65 or with weakened immune systems. Healthy individuals under the age of 50 currently are not recommended to get multiple booster shots.

Author Phyllis Michael Wong joined Bridge Michigan for a discussion of her historical account of the work of the ‘Gossard Girls,’ employees at undergarment factories in MIchigan’s Upper Peninsula.