Jonathan Oosting

Stephanie Chatfield released a statement Thursday acknowledging her husband’s infidelities, including with sister-in-law Rebekah Chatfield. But she challenged Rebekah’s account that Lee assaulted her as an underage student.

The U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack subpoenaed former Michigan Republican Party Chairwoman Laura Cox on Tuesday, requesting information about Rudy Giuliani’s attempts to pressure state lawmakers into rejecting election results and appointing pro-Trump electors.

Lansing has tax cut fever. Republicans want to reduce income tax rates as part of a $2 billion tax cut. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer also is proposing her own cuts.

Anne and Rob Minard were senior staffers for the former House speaker. She ran a nonprofit tied to Chatfield that spent nearly a half-million on travel, while a business connected to the pair was paid $1 million by Republicans.

Organizers with End Gun Violence Michigan are considering a 2024 ballot proposal if the Republican-led Legislature does not act on firearm reforms following a shooting at Oxford High School that left four dead and others injured.

Perry Johnson has said he'll spend at least $2.5 million of his own money in his bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.

Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson requested the investigation after her office received reports ‘an unnamed third party was allowed to access vote tabulator component.’ The first-term Democrat suggested the breach may be related to ongoing attempts to undermine the 2020 presidential election.

Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey promised a hearing on ‘extreme risk protection orders’ more than two years ago. Gun rights groups are gearing up for a legislative fight as Shirkey prepares to finally make good on the promise.

Gretchen Whitmer’s $74 billion budget would be by far the largest in state history. But problems with roads, schools, infrastructure and broadband have been years in the making and became worse in the pandemic.

Michigan lawmakers end months of stalemates over federal resources and allocate money for schools, nursing homes, labs and more.

Political maps created by Michigan’s new independent redistricting have survived the first in a series of legal challenges.

The Michigan Senate is negotiating changes to House approved ethics reforms and considering tighter rules for political funds in the wake of sexual and financial allegations against former House Speaker Lee Chatfield.

The former U.S. education secretary is throwing her riches behind a petition drive to create a tax credit scholarship program in Michigan that critics contend will undermine public education.

“You can’t believe everything you read in a newspaper,” pastor Rusty Chatfield told congregants at his northern Michigan church, two days after Bridge Michigan published a report in which Lee Chatfield was accused of sexually assaulting a teen at the affiliated Christian school.

House leadership Saturday ordered lawmakers and staff to preserve records on the former speaker, who faces sexual assault allegations. The order was spurred by allegations in a Bridge Michigan article Friday, which includes lengthy interviews with his accuser.

She said Chatfield groomed and then assaulted her when she was a 15- or 16-year-old student at a Chatfield family-run Christian school in northern Michigan where he taught. She said the assaults continued for years before she filed a police report in December.

How two troubled young men tried to start a separatist compound — and what it says about the white-power movement in Michigan.

Republicans are using Michigan’s unique law in an attempt to tighten voter ID laws, limit emergency health orders and create a new tax credit program to fund private school education.

Steeling for omicron, the Michigan governor says she supports a federal mandate while defending her ongoing resistance to state mandates.

Trump loyalists on Tuesday filed language for a planned petition drive that would require a ‘forensic audit’ of the 2020 election. Critics blast it as the height of hypocrisy.