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Lawmakers are exploring whether streaming providers like Netflix and Hulu should have to pay the fees cable companies currently pay to local governments.
Facing a growing campaign to remove her, the Michigan Republican Party chair dumps critics from internal committees. Some are flabbergasted: ‘Were you drunk?’ one prominent Republican asks Karamo.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed clean energy bills in Detroit on Tuesday that aim to meet the goal of making the state 100 percent reliant on clean energy by midcentury.
A federal judge ruled that the former owner of two failed mid-Michigan dams is liable for $120 million in damages. But he filed for bankruptcy in 2020.
A group called AxMITax plans to begin circulating petitions in January for a potential ballot proposal, which if passed would eliminate, among other priorities, the $2.5 billion State Education Tax used to support K-12 schools.
The Michigan House will remain at a 54-54 tie until replacements for two departing Democrats are seated in April 2024, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Wednesday.
Democratic lawmakers and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had sought to go further in rewriting Michigan’s abortion laws, but scaled back the bills to win majority support. Advocates said the bill package’s signing still marks a significant step forward.
As the 2024 election nears, a movement is afoot to oust Michigan GOP Chair Kristina Karamo this month. Foes are recruiting potential successors, but others aren’t convinced the effort will work.
‘You just can't come in and take our weapons away without giving us a fighting chance to stand up for ourselves,’ Holton Township Supervisor Alan Jager says.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed three bills Monday that will ban convicted domestic abusers from owning firearms for eight years, including those convicted on misdemeanor charges.
Michigan’s Capitol is the first in the nation to deploy an artificial intelligence system to detect brandished or otherwise drawn guns, according to the ZeroEyes company that is leasing its technology to the state.
A ‘death with dignity’ bill package introduced in the Michigan Senate last week would allow people with less than six months to live to request a prescription for life-ending medication.
A private investigator who worked with Matthew DePerno and Stefanie Lambert helped prosecutors build the case against them, according to new revelations from the tabulator tampering probe now headed toward trial.
Indiana leads the Midwest in population growth. Michigan lags. What can we learn from the Hoosier state? That building cities and towns where young people want to live and raise families can bring the economy along with them.
Donald Trump can appear on Michigan’s presidential primary ballot, a state judge ruled Tuesday, rejecting lawsuits that sought to disqualify him because of an insurrection clause in the U.S. Constitution. Appeals are planned.
Michigan House Speaker Joe Tate says it’s not ‘feasible’ to fill vacant House seats by the end of February, meaning Democrats will need Republicans’ help to approve legislation well into next year.
