Blog by Team MIRS

A federal appellate panel held two religious entities have established standing in their challenge to Michigan’s civil rights law that now includes sexual orientation and gender identity protections.

Four Michigan-based companies are the recipients of $355 million in processing and manufacturing electric vehicles (EVs) grants from the U.S. Department of Energy. The DOE announced more than $3 billion in investments for 25 selected areas across 14 states.

New Senate bills give Michigan seniors and "vulnerable adults," who are unable to live on their own, access to a restraining order system under which they could petition against people they fear won't leave their property, or who have exploited them financially or tampered with their care.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name will remain on Michigan’s Nov. 5 presidential ballot after a federal judge rejected his effort to remove it.

Public school districts would spend nearly 6 percentage points less on their employee retirement payments under legislation that cleared the Senate on a party-line, 20-16, vote Tuesday.