Visitors to public lands and outdoor recreation are overwhelmingly white. State land managers say they want to reduce this “nature gap,” while African-American and Latino groups are encouraging more exploration of Michigan waters and trails.

After years of collecting samples from killed deer that overwhelmed state resources while failing to provide the information biologists need to track chronic wasting disease, state officials are taking a more targeted approach.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says she will veto a measure that would prevent governors from using a state emergency alert system to announce new laws or orders.

Use this database to compare scores in math and English for grades 3-8.

Scores fall, in some cases alarmingly so. But educators caution against reading too much into results from a year in which students were in and out of classrooms.

Bridge Michigan health reporter Robin Erb moderated a Zoom discussion with three experts about problems with the state’s youth mental health treatment system and potential solutions.

The Michigan governor pledged to make her office subject to records requests. She’s not only failed to do so, but an internal memo shows her office wants to review FOIA requests before they are disclosed.

If Michigan’s experience is similar to other states, brace yourself for lower standardized test scores and bigger gaps between racial and income groups, caused by the pandemic.

Measures to tighter voter ID laws, bar mass mailings of absentee ballots and forbid private funding for public elections would bypass Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Schools tried a bit of everything to keep students safe last year. Some of those efforts are being pared back now as schools and health officials learn more about what appears to help reduce COVID, and what doesn’t.

Supply shortages and fewer workers are stretching some of the largest companies in the state. But overall, most have returned — or burned past — 2019 sales totals for the second three months of the year.

“People are at their wits’ end” when they learn how the pandemic has impacted what refrigerators, washers or other products are available, and how soon the store can get them. Customer flexibility can speed the process.