Blog by Team MIRS

Republican legislators are up in arms about the Department of Natural Resources' (DNR) proposal to lease 420 acres of Otsego County land for a solar energy farm.

For the 59th time since 1899, the Michigan House’s election for speaker went unopposed. Speaker Matt Hall (R-Richland Township) officially has the gavel for the 103rd Legislature and was elected unanimously by his colleagues on Wednesday

Session just started for the 2025-26 term, and there's already friction in the state House over where the minority Democratic members are going to sit.

Money is pouring into state coffers at a much higher rate than the state's bean counters projected back in May, according to the Senate Fiscal Agency’s Economic Outlook Report and Budget Review.

An outbreak of an avian flu strain that's lethal to birds is hampering the nation's poultry industry and causing egg prices to spike in Michigan and across the country.