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Sixty-eight percent of Michigan voters are fine with federal environmental mandates for light trucks and cars to be more fuel efficient, a survey from the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy finds.

Corrections officer recruits would no longer need to complete 15 college credit hours as an employment requirement under HB 5912 that Rep. Jenn Hill (D-Marquette) introduced Thursday.

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm described the country as amid a "building boom," touting to union pipefitters and plumbers on Wednesday how federal construction tax credits incentivize tapping into union contractors and apprenticeship programs.

A state regulatory board charged with overseeing the rules and licenses in the heating and refrigeration industry failed to reach a quorum Wednesday for its ninth straight meeting.

Nearly 127,000 teens between the ages of 16 to 17-½ are eligible to preregister to vote, and on Tuesday the Secretary of State asked the Board of Education to help get those kids engaged.