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Flint Mayor: City Has Met Obligations In 2016 Flint Water Lawsuit Settlement

While reducing property taxes remains top of his "to-do" list, House Speaker Matt Hall (R-Richland Township) is wading into the debate over the total elimination of the state income tax with a resulting $13 billion hit to the state budget.

The Mackinac Bridge is at a low risk of collapse if hit by a vessel, a new report from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found.

Record $1.7B Of School Aid Fund Money Funded Colleges, Universities In New Budget

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) told Detroit, East Lansing and Lansing that election monitors will be sent to their cities for the August primary, which top state leaders say is based on numerous unsubstantiated claims.

U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Birmingham) and Abdul El-Sayed debated at the WOOD TV 8 studio where it turned into a verbal brawl, but both U.S. Senate candidates refused to address the schism in the party.

In its last month of its current session, the Michigan Supreme Court has 28 outstanding opinions — eight of which are calendar cases, which means an opinion is expected no later than July 31.

The first effects of President Donald Trump's overhaul of Medicaid and food assistance programs are beginning to appear in the Department of Health and Human Services's (DHHS) Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 budget

A record $1.7 billion from the School Aid Fund is going to higher education and community colleges in the newly passed FY 2026-27 “school bus” budget, furthering a decades-old budget practice that has grown substantially in recent years.

The Senate passed three bills that were part of House Speaker Matt Hall (R-Richland Township)'s transparency and ethics platform, prohibiting lawmakers who take office after Jan. 1, 2027, from registering as lobbyists for two years after leaving office.

The era of free-flowing COVID-19 money is officially over as a blurred-eyed House and Senate Friday passed a $75 billion Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 budget that rolled back federal spending authorizations, axed one-time appropriations and scratched alleged “ghost employees."

Lawmakers were unable to meet their statutory July 1 deadline to get the budget done and Rep. Regina Weiss (D-Oak Park) wants to do something about it going forward.

House Speaker Matt Hall (R-Richland Township)'s recent attempt to negotiate numerous policy bills alongside the Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 budget deal is slowing down progress to the point where finishing everything by Independence Day may not happen, MIRS has learned.

Oakland County Judge Michael Warren perhaps made political history Tuesday, earning both the Libertarian and Republican parties’ nomination for the Michigan Supreme Court (MSC).

Legislative leaders and the Budget Office spent another day ironing out the final pieces of a Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 budget agreement, likely blowing through the statutory July 1 deadline to finish next year's spending document, but on pace to send a final deal to the governor by the July 4th holiday.

As Anthony Hudson enters the gubernatorial race this week as the Libertarian Party nominee, MIRS reviewed every Michigan governor's race since statehood to see what impact third-party candidates have had.

The story is legendary in the Bill Schuette household.

Legislative leaders and the State Budget Office signed off Wednesday night on spending targets for each department in the Fiscal Year 2027 budget, clearing the way for House and Senate appropriations subcommittees to begin negotiating final spending plans.

America turns 250 next week, but for many people old enough to remember the nation's bicentennial celebration in 1976, the run-up to the milestone birthday feels strangely subdued.

While HUD Secretary Scott Turner praised a new workforce housing development in Portage last week, city officials say the project is the product of years of rewriting local zoning rules to make housing easier — not harder — to build.