We have a choice this year to break from the longtime practice of secrecy and pork payouts. It’s a dramatic choice. Pork or progress.

Kneecapping our state universities by restricting or cutting off research funding is a destructive and senseless act of self-sabotage.

Michigan rules. So do you. Prove it by answering these questions on the news.

Drownings in the Great Lakes are down this year, with half of them occurring in Lake Michigan. Meanwhile, the number of drownings in inland lakes isn’t known and some sheriffs are cutting back marine patrols amid a funding shortage.

Michigan’s failed $6.2 billion bid to launch a semiconductor plant in Genesee County has renewed debate about corporate incentives. Gov. Whitmer says the president promised her Michigan will ‘get an even better deal.’

In her first public comments on the investigation into a $20 million budget earmark awarded to one of her donors, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says anyone misusing state funds ‘should expect to be held accountable.’

Scott Piper is the third professor to be stripped of tenure at the University of Michigan in decades.

Alcohol sales have declined in the past year. The response from bar owners? Boozeless brunch, NA beers and mocktails.

The recently discovered Western Reserve wreck is providing lessons about shipbuilding, underwater archaeology and the importance of survivor accounts.