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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer met with British internet celebrity Jason Riley and musician Mikael Temrowski after popping in on the last day of the 20th Anniversary Pure Michigan Governor’s Conference on Tourism.

A Royal Oak woman and self-described as the grassroots Republican candidate for U.S. Senate filed a lawsuit seeking ballot access without meeting the signature requirements.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said she won't endorse candidates in the Democrats' U.S. Senate primary or in the Secretary of State race. The latter race involves her current lieutenant governor, Garlin Gilchrist II, as well as her former deputy legal counsel and lottery commissioner Suzanna Shkreli.

Oakland County GOP Chair Vance Patrick posted Wednesday night that U.S. Rep. John James (R-Shelby Township) won't agree to participate in their April 30 gubernatorial debate. James' photo was displayed on the flier promoting the event, which his campaign said they never committed to.

U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Holly) said on Tuesday that she’d consider running for president in 2028 to help the Democratic Party chart a new path built around the generation of leaders, according to a story published Tuesday evening in the Des Moines Register.

State Rep. Carrie Rheingans (D-Ann Arbor) helped put together 218 state legislators from 27 states calling for Vice President JD Vance to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office.

Former State Lottery Commissioner Suzanna Shkreli, who's running to be Democrats' Secretary of State nominee, says her opponent, Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II "told me point-blank that he didn't want this job" ahead of her entering the race last December.

The Senate Leadership Fund on Monday announced its largest ever advertising reservation — including $45 million in Michigan to support U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers.

If legislators don't grant the Selfridge Air National Guard Base funding by early May to construct a new runway accommodating the new fighter jets the President assigned to the base last year, House Speaker Matt Hall (R-Richland Township) doesn't believe the new aircraft will come at all.

Lights, cameras, glitz and glam: Surprise! It isn’t Hollywood, it’s politics.

In an attempt to lower gas prices, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order declaring a state of energy emergency in Michigan to loosen requirements on fuel blends and allow for the sale of higher vapor pressure gas.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive directive instructing state agencies to help registered businesses pursue tariff refunds from the federal government and to report on the impacts of those tariffs.

As Congress left Washington for spring break amid a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), celebrity tabloid TMZ urged readers to submit photos of lawmakers on vacation — a move media experts say reflects a long-standing overlap between politics and tabloid culture.

Wayne State University Gov. Dr. Anil Kumar dropped out of the 10th Congressional race in December as a Democratic candidate. In February, he decided to run in the district next door, the 11th, and as an independent.

Volunteers manning a Rank MI Vote booth at the Michigan Republican Party's endorsement convention this past weekend were asked to leave by party leaders and security after Rep. Matt Maddock (R-Milford) confronted them and made it clear their presence wasn't welcome.

A text message was circulating on social media from Michigan Republican Party Chair Jim Runestad (R-White Lake) saying, "We will have nothing to do" with strategist Brian Szmytke and 8th Congressional District Chair Anne DeLisle because they spoke with reporters about the endorsement convention's $50 cost and its impacts on attendance.

The March 12 attack on the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield was a Hezbollah-inspired act of terrorism, FBI Special Agent in Charge Jennifer Runyan said in a press briefing.

Moral issues have defined the political divide between Democrats and Republicans for as long as the donkey and elephant have graced political cartoons, but the fault lines continue to shift as new debates emerge and old ones fade.

Eaton County Prosecutor Doug Lloyd and Macomb County Clerk Anthony Forlini won the Michigan Republican Party's endorsements for Attorney General and Secretary of State, respectively, after running on bids centered on experience.

House Speaker Matt Hall (R-Richland Township) said he was “feeling charitable” when he helped move a bill, HB 4044, to designate the wood duck as Michigan's official state duck, taking a jab at bill sponsor Rep. Alabas Farhat (D-Dearborn) in the process.