Michigan advocates and health experts say the ban could have a significant impact on improving public health, but particularly for African American smokers, who overwhelmingly favor menthol cigarettes. But some Black advocates warn of unintended consequences.

Michigan’s citizen commission is still meeting — and getting paid. How much longer? Nobody knows.

A federal civil rights agency is looking into why CMU ended men’s track and field and then revived its men’s golf program. University President Bob Davies said a tight budget (track costs more to run than golf) not racial bias was the reason.

The Poweshiek skipperling is an endangered butterfly species with only two remaining populations that are teetering on the verge of extinction.

Once suffering a shortage of COVID-19 treatments, the state now has an abundance of them, as well as clinics and pharmacies to dispense them — critically, at the same time you are diagnosed.

The pandemic didn’t hospitalize or kill as many college students as it did their grandparents, but it still left a mark on “the best four years of your life.”

Across the country, conservative legislatures are trying to exclude transgender athletes from girls sports. A few sentences in a K-12 budget proposal could have a similar impact in Michigan.

Bridge Michigan reporters Robin Erb and Mike Wilkinson moderate a Zoom discussion with two health experts about moving from pandemic to endemic.

The ouster of Trump’s choice for Michigan House Speaker is the latest in a ‘fight in the family’ that’s made it a tumultuous few weeks for Republicans.

The Democratic package would not use standardized test scores this year to evaluate teachers or enforce Michigan’s third-grade reading law in recognition of the disruptions caused by the pandemic. It’s unclear if Republicans will give the bills a hearing.

On May 11, Bridge Michigan environment reporter Kelly House and Circle of Blue’s Brett Walton will moderate a Zoom discussion about the crisis of crumbling water infrastructure in our state and region.

Housing is already scarce in northern Michigan. Now businesses, faced with hiring for the billion-dollar tourist season, are finding their own solutions: Buying motels, leasing camp spaces and asking for rooms in houses.