Blog by Team MIRS

Federal funds intended to stabilize the budgets of local communities have proven a daunting task to take down for multiple reasons, a recent policy survey by the University of Michigan found.

The Michigan Public Service Commission Friday launched an investigation into Consumers Energy amid customers' complaints about meter malfunctions, billing practices and delays in new service installations.

Clare police were called to the Doherty Hotel Saturday after a fight at a closed-door meeting of the Michigan Republican Party state committee, and many were upset by the amount of funding revealed in the party coffers.

A bicameral bill package giving the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) greater power to issue emergency water management orders was introduced in both chambers last week, in response to a still-unsettled lawsuit over Kalamazoo’s Morrow Dam.

The state has asked a Court of Claims judge to dismiss a counter-lawsuit filed on behalf of a Hanover game hunting ranch, whom the state alleges illegally possesses Russian boar.