Bridge Michigan explored the public cost of allowing automakers to leave polluted plants behind while they seek state incentives to build new ones. The Michigan Legislature is now poised to introduce bills to hold industry more accountable.

‘At least it wasn’t a drunkfest,’ Michigan GOP chair Kristina Karamo says of money-losing Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference. Party needed loan to pay actor Jim Caviezel for a keynote address.

Worries about Chinese expansions into the U.S. food supply prompt legislation to bar 'adversarial entities' from buying farms in Michigan. Records show Chinese companies don't own much land, but sponsor says 'China will do whatever it takes to get a foot in the door.'

Michigan ranks No. 1 in the country for producing the most milk per cow — and has been for the past few years.

Republicans canvassers blocked a citizen ballot proposal to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour because organizers changed a definition in the petition before collecting an estimated 360,309 voter signatures.

Michigan’s Democratic-led Senate votes to repeal a series of abortion restrictions previously enacted by Republicans. But the bills could face a roadblock in the Democratic-led House.

In one of the first public policy disputes between Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Democratic legislative leaders, the Michigan Senate votes to undo health care price controls built into a 2019 insurance law overhaul.

Increasing EV production and closing coal-fired power plants will impact the state’s workforce and communities. Legislation could create a new state office to aid both in the transition.

Oakland County will use $2 million in American Rescue Plan Act dollars, or COVID relief funds, to work with a national nonprofit, RIP Medical Debt, that will pay off medical debt for pennies on the dollar.

Young college-educated workers can live wherever they want. That gives lots of hope to Michigan, but it also is another reason to lose our best and brightest.

New law mandates for filtered water bottle filling stations or faucets in all schools and daycare centers by 2026.

The 19-state hospital chain, Ascension, will shed its south and mid-Michigan hospitals, but it will keep its hospitals in northern Michigan.