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The three candidates the State Board of Education interviewed  for the open superintendent post ended up being the three semi-finalists chosen Tuesday to be Michael Rice's successor.

Duggan: 'How's The Independent Candidacy Feeling Tonight?'

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed three bills Friday, bringing the total number of bills passed through the Legislature and signed into law in 2025 to nine.

Contrary to widespread public belief, crime in both Michigan and the United States is on the decline – and has been for years - according to the latest law enforcement and victimization data.

School districts would be blocked from transferring children's records to new schools without written confirmation that the child has been enrolled there, under a bill Oakland County's top public safety officials see as removing a current loophole for hiding child abuse and neglect.

The Michigan Natural Resources Commission (NRC) voted Thursday in Gaylord that it “is committed” to reinstating the year-round hunting season on the overpopulated coyote, a reversal in approach from a year ago.

Creating pornographic or sexual deepfakes of someone will result in a $3,000, one-year misdemeanor and possibly a daily $1,000 court-issued injunction if it's not erased, under House bills the Senate moved Wednesday.

Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks (D-Grand Rapids) hasn't had a one-on-one meeting with the House Speaker in about a month, and she's concerned that the state is careening towards a Sept. 30 shutdown because House Republicans have not been able to produce a budget that makes their road funding and tax cut promises add up.

Ideological tensions between conservative Republicans and progressive Democrats exposed themselves Tuesday in a House committee during testimony over revised legislation that would allow unwanted newborns to be deposited in a safety delivery box attached to a hospital, police station or fire station.

A federal jury has awarded nearly $58.5 million in damages to a police officer who was falsely accused by the Attorney General's office of molesting his 4-year-old daughter.

Attorney General Dana Nessel told WDIV "Flashpoint" on Sunday that she is "deeply concerned" by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s (MEDC) conduct, which she described as "deeply troubling," during an investigation into a $20 million grant.

A collection of 35th Senate District residents have filed a lawsuit seeking an order to compel Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to call a special election to fill the 35th State Senate District.

A national poll of progressives shows the far-left is increasingly disappointed with the Democratic Party and are pushing for what they call populist policies, according to the progressive organization Our Revolution.

It's been a whopping 47 years since the Michigan Legislature has seriously tackled property tax relief and another 31 years since it took another look at the Headlee Amendment and Proposal A.

At least five Hmong refugees who have purportedly lived legal, productive lives in Michigan for years face deportation and an uncertain future if they're sent to their ancestral home of Laos or Thailand, as federal officials appear to be preparing to do, state lawmakers said Thursday at a Capitol press conference.

Within days of the House batting down an attempt to ban cell phones in schools, independent gubernatorial candidate Mike Duggan was standing in front of a camera, hands in his pockets on a downtown Detroit sidewalk, using that rejection as exhibit A that "Lansing is broken" and voters should "deliver a message that they are fed up with both parties."

While foreign investment in U.S. agricultural land has increased in the last 15 to 20 years, China’s share of that has decreased since 2021 from 383,000 acres to 277,000 acres in 2023, said Danny Munch of the American Farm Bureau Federation.

If the Governor, Senate Majority Leader and House Speaker have had face-to-face-to-face negotiations over the unresolved Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget since talks broke down July 1, no one is admitting it.

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues on its path of reshaping nearly every sector of American life, Tuesday’s panel at the National Conference of State Legislatures explored the emerging question: How will the nation's energy grid be impacted by AI and cloud technologies?

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer made a return trip to the White House on Tuesday, making the case directly to the President that his emergency tariffs were hurting Michigan's auto industry. She is also asking that Michigan be allowed to continue a Medicaid provider assessment to prevent the system from potentially having to drop patients due to costs.