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Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Leonard announced on Facebook that he is withdrawing from the race after taking an “honest look at the path forward.”

President Donald Trump’s acting attorney general signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug.

The Perry Johnson campaign filed a lawsuit Wednesday against gubernatorial candidate U.S. Rep. John James (R-Shelby Township) and his campaign, alleging election law violations for not making it clear that James is a gubernatorial candidate, and not the governor.

House Republicans muscled their Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 budget plan (HB 5619) through the chamber Wednesday night, marking the earliest that a first-run omnibus has passed the House in at least a decade. It follows a cycle in which the House's first budget bill wasn't passed until late summer.

A House subcommittee advanced a Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 spending bill on Tuesday that includes a $145.3 million fund for legislative “pork” projects known formally as the Legislative Spending Transparency Fund (LSTF).

Former House Speaker Joe Tate (D-Detroit) will finish his term as minority vice chair of the House Appropriations Committee, House Speaker Matt Hall (R-Richland Township) announced Tuesday, saying his predecessor is “highly respected and many Democrats have been coming to me recently saying they had made a mistake in changing leaders.”

Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive U.S. Senate candidate, has apologized to opponent and U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Birmingham) who was booed at during Sunday's Michigan Democratic Party (MDP) endorsement convention.

For years, he’s been a fixture outside Lansing City Hall and the Capitol, serving up hot dogs to lawmakers, lobbyists and reporters alike.

Since the turn of the century, if a winning party's gubernatorial or presidential candidate managed at least 53 percent of the popular vote in a Michigan election, their entire slate of education board nominees all won.

Being a politician means meeting with people, talking with people, and being scrutinized by people. It can all seem akin to the celebrity fishbowl, with the extra step of being held to account by the people who elected you.

Former Detroit public health official Abdul El-Sayed and state Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D-Royal Oak) are in a statistical dead heat in the Democratic U.S. Senate primary based on the results of a new public opinion poll released Thursday morning by Emerson College that has El-Sayed at 24% and McMorrow at 23.6%

The House higher education budget advancing out of the Appropriations Subcommittee Thursday morning would cut funding for Michigan State University and University of Michigan by roughly 63%, redirecting much of the savings toward student scholarship programs.

April 15 was more than just Tax Day, it was also the federal campaign finance quarterly deadline and the numbers show what’s going on behind the scenes in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House races across the state.

With U.S. Rep. John James (R-Shelby Township) announcing plans to eliminate Michigan's 6% income tax, the entire six-person Republican field is now on record supporting getting rid of a major state-levied tax.

Term-limited Sen. Jeremy Moss (D-Bloomfield Twp.) sponsored his last-ever Holocaust Remembrance Day resolution, SR 105, in the Michigan Capitol Tuesday. He said that in today's politics, both parties have an antisemitism problem.

If lawmakers were expecting a slow return from spring break, they didn’t get it. The Republican-led House opened its first session back by advancing one of its most polarizing proposals — the bill requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote.

U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) and other Michigan Democrats argued Monday that higher costs driven by federal policy and global conflict are erasing any tax relief for working families as Tax Day approaches.

An AI-generated photo President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social drew rebuke from one Christian-minded gubernatorial candidate and a conservative Catholic lawmaker, who viewed the post as "blasphemy."

The federal government wants a court order invalidating Washtenaw County officials’ policy outlining law enforcement’s response to immigration efforts.

U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Birmingham) submitted her petition signatures necessary to appear on the ballot for the upcoming Democratic primary for U.S. Senate.