The Michigan Senate is expected to take up tax relief on Tuesday. The party that normally favors low taxes is opposed to Gov. Whitmer’s $180 rebate checks. It’s complicated.

In what one donor calls ‘doubling down on dumb,’ two failed state candidates known for conspiracy theories — Kristina Karamo and Mathew DePerno — are front-runners to lead the Michigan GOP.

Ford Motor Co. fleshed out details on Monday of a battery plant it will build with a Chinese partner on farmland near Marshall. The plant, to employ 2,500, is scheduled to open in 2026.

The multi-billion-dollar project with Chinese battery giant CATL is touted to produce 2,500 jobs and add to Michigan’s growing share of EV-related development. Virginia had previously rejected the project because of its ties to China.

A report shows drivers of electric vehicles have more difficulty finding a charging station, even as demand increases. Fast charging stations are highly concentrated in urban areas across lower Michigan and not rural areas.

Overall, enrollment fell by less than 1 percent, and data suggests students who left for private schools during COVID aren’t coming back.

Faced with steep competition and price drops of 75 percent, the state’s 600-plus recreational cannabis dispensaries and suppliers are seeking a sales edge beyond ubiquitous billboards. But who imagined early bird specials?

Mental health problems, especially suicides, are significantly higher among blue-collar workers compared with other occupations, according to the Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity.

State cable subscriptions fell a record 9 percent, as Michigan mirrors a national trend.

Michigan State University senior Miranda Dunlap wrote a column this week in the student paper about her own painful experience reporting sexual assault to the school. In a Q and A, she tells Bridge how the school can improve the process.

House Democrats pass tax cuts to lower-income residents and seniors, but a $180 onetime rebate is up could be up in the air unless Senate Republicans agree to the plan.

Michigan wildlife regulators are scrambling to ban hunters from putting melatonin, a sleep aid, in bait piles after allegations that a ‘piss-poor’ hunter was doing just that to make the state’s thriving bear population easier to kill.