The Michigan House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday approved and advanced legislation that would formally repeal an invalidated abortion ban and remove references to criminal penalties.

The bill expands the state civil rights act to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The Democratic bill, which passed with three GOP votes, does not include any religious exemptions.

Powerful voter rights groups that overhauled Michigan voter laws have a new goal: Electing the U.S. president based on the national popular vote. Two winners of recent presidential elections — George W. Bush and Donald Trump — took office despite losing the national vote.

Tax cuts coming for lower-income and pensioners — and a permanent income tax could be triggered this year under a deal that effectively killed a onetime stimulus.

Lawmakers approve another spending plan, including more investments into a Ford electric vehicle battery plant near Marshall.

Local roads in Michigan are slightly better than they were in prior years. But that’s not saying much.

Advocates endorse national panel guidelines to screen children aged 8 to 18 for anxiety disorders.

The $97 million project was originally supposed to be done by 2020. City officials blame the COVID-19 pandemic, supply shortages and unreliable contractors for the delay.

All on-duty officers rushed to the gunman, leaving no one initially to send an alert to students to ‘run, hide, fight.’ The text came 13 minutes after the first 9-1-1 call, as the gunman had moved to another building.

Many Michigan residents are still without power following last week’s ice storm. Democrats are chastising utility companies for not providing automatic reimbursements to consumers impacted by power outages.

Join us when reporters Isabel Lohman, Jonathan Oosting and Yue Stella Yu detail possible solutions for stopping gun violence and mass shootings in a conversation moderated by managing editor Joel Kurth.

African Americans died from the coronavirus at about the same rate as whites in 2022, a state-appointed task force finds