Business Watch

Ohio is expected to approve its first recreational marijuana retailers, possibly this month, a move that could cut into profits at the dozens of Michigan retailers who have targeted the Ohio market for customers.

Rite Aid is in bankruptcy and has struggled to keep its doors open. See if your location is on the closure list.

Legislators, who are debating economic subsidies, raise alarms after Bridge reports that Michigan spent $1 billion to create 200 jobs in EV battery plants.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer bet big on five companies that promised $16 billion in investments and 12,000 jobs. The projects didn’t need to create jobs before getting the money, and now all are delayed or downsized.

Michigan has pledged $2 billion to five companies promising huge investments. The projects are behind amid flux in the auto industry. Here’s where they all stand.

A House committee passed a $6 billion plan to set aside $2.5 billion for corporate incentives over the next 10 years and funnel more money to transit and housing. It faces tougher prospects in the full House.

A new Michigan plan would redirect some business incentive funding to pay for transit projects. Supporters imagine autonomous vehicles delivering workers, bus rapid transit in Detroit and better air travel to northern Michigan.

The iconic Michigan Central Station will reopen on Thursday after a $950 million restoration by Ford Motor Co.

The Michigan Legislature seems ready to redirect much of its billion dollar incentive spending toward building more mass transit and other community projects. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer appears open to the idea.

China will build 30 million vehicles this year, three times as many as the U.S. That means Detroit automakers — and Michigan policymakers — must act to preserve the state’s dominant industry, experts said Wednesday.

Cheboygan has a newspaper, but no news reporters. A renaissance supply shop is now occupying its newsroom. So if there’s news in Cheboygan, it’s news to residents.

The state will use a $250 million grant to buy property for the megasite, which officials said is likely to reach 1,300 acres. Looming federal funding deadlines for large advanced manufacturing factories are prompting urgency.

Ponant’s Le Champlain joins the lineup of cruise ships operating in Michigan this year. Six cruise lines with eight ships operate in the Great Lakes.

Herbruck’s Poultry Ranch is the first commercial egg farm in Michigan to have to destroy its chicken flocks after an outbreak of ‘bird flu.’ It may be a sign that egg prices will climb again.

Electric vehicles, EV batteries and semiconductors from China all face new costs if sold in the U.S. as Biden administration attacks 'artificially cheap products.’

Michigan has a persistent worker shortage, but many are in fields that workers consider dead dull, according to an MSU study that could close the gap in skills training.

The likely struggle of the Hudson’s Detroit project to meet projected Detroit jobs and revenue is the latest large-scale project fueling the debate over the structure of tax-incentivized development.

The UAW is negotiating for changes at the Warren Stamping Plant, where workers say better ventilation and protective equipment are needed.

U-M’s Center for Innovation will house graduate-level programs and workforce development programs for Detroiters. Merging the two will also create a place for industry, its new director says.

Developers are banking that the massive mall can be retooled with 2,800 apartments, a hotel, restaurants and ‘Main Street’ style sidewalks. It’s perhaps Michigan’s largest and most ambitious remaking of a troubled mall.