Using federal COVID relief funds to curb learning loss, some local school districts are putting money into tutoring. A review of 16 programs shows some schools follow best practices more closely than others.

Scientists from around the world are expected to flock to East Lansing to conduct research at the $730 million Facility for Rare Isotopes, which officially opens Monday. Its particle accelerator is faster than yours.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is speaking at a ‘comeback ceremony’ May 7 for Class of 2020 and 2021 graduates whose commencements were curtailed because of the pandemic.

The Hollywood director and Michigan GOP Chair Ron Weiser have one thing in common: They are both big donors to competing ballot measures over the future of voting rights in Michigan.

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.”