The GOP-controlled Legislature wants to increase funding as 15 percent. Details still need to be worked out between House, Senate plans.

If there are tax cuts coming, there needs to be transparency about the budget tradeoffs that are required.

Lawmakers propose competing scholarships, aid programs to return to school during Michigan budget deliberations.

We are intricately tied together. Every battle belongs to and calls for every single one of us to fight.

Michigan has a financial cushion thanks to federal stimulus funds and stronger-than-expected recovery from the economic shock of COVID-19. But education spending is a sticking point.

Winning work examined environmental justice, consumer watchdog issues, extremism, the environment and more.

A new report on flooding that caused $200 million in damages singles out the actions of Midland County’s emergency services coordinator, who called for an early evacuation.

Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has vetoed past Republican efforts to tie state funding to anti-abortion initiatives, but lawmakers say they’ll continue to try.